Pabenschwandt Manor

The Pabenschwandt manor is a single farm northeast of the village center of Plainfeld in Salzburg Land.

The earliest mention of the name Pabenschwandt from 1269 concerns a Konrad von Pabenswant, who vouched for the brothers Kuno and Konrad von Kalheim. On December 26, 1288, the aforementioned brothers, together with Heinrich von Kalham, handed over Gottfried von Pabenswant's wife, Hedwig, with her seven children, to the Salzburg church. In 1336, the Pawenswanter family is mentioned as landlords. The last member of this family, Eustach von der Alm, left Pabenschwant to his servant Sebastian Hartberger upon his death. After Sebastian also died without heirs in 1567, his family sold the farm to the "noble and steadfast Hanns Hess and Anna Copeindlin". Balthasar von Raunach acquired the farm in 1574, but had its administration transferred to Wartenfels. The administrator of Wartenfels, David Widmannster, had bought the estate in 1606 and then bequeathed it to his children. In 1678, Ferdinand Hueber bought Pabenschwandt. The farm, described as a "noble free seat" in 1688, was sold in 1705 by the Abtenau administrator Josef Pock von Arnholz to Abbot Placidus Mayrhauser of St. Peter's Monastery. St. Peter even wanted to build a larger chapel in honor of the Three Holy Kings with a daily mass license after purchasing Pabenschwandt Castle, but had to abandon the project after purchasing Goldenstein Castle.

On the occasion of its 300th anniversary, St. Peter's Archabbey and the Prangerschützen Plainfeld erected a chapel in honor of Saint Leonhard. After about six months of construction, it was consecrated on November 5, 2006, by Archabbot Edmund Wagenhofer.