Bogenhofen Castle

Originally, Bogenhofen was a single-story wooden building. Michael Wening's copper engraving also suggests a farmhouse rather than a castle. In 1438, Bogenhofen was sold by Hanns Rohrer and his wife Margarethe, née Seiboldsdorferin, to the Bavarian Chancellor Andreas Loder. In 1451, the seat received "Hofmarksfreiheit und Gerechtigkeit" (manorial freedom and justice) from Duke Ludwig of Lower Bavaria. His son Leonhard Loderer named himself Pogenhofner after the property; the Pogenhofner family resided here until 1677. Successors by inheritance were the Pintzenauer (Pienzenau), from whom it again passed by marriage to the Barons von Nothafft. By purchase, it went to Baron Franz Xaver von Seiboldsdorf (Seybersdorff), who had the castle rebuilt. In 1791, it passed to Anton Baron Hueber zu Mauern. He was followed in 1828 by Philipp Baron von Risenfels, who exchanged the property for Haitzing. Thereafter, the Bogenhofen estate was merged with Hagenau Castle. In 1831, Kajetan and Josephine Plaichinger acquired the property; under them, the new construction of an Empire castle began in 1834. From them, it was acquired in 1842 by Countess Anna von Geldern and in the same year by Paul Anton von Handel. After the First World War, the property passed to Colonel Baron von Pereira and from him until the mid-20th century to his wife Baroness Pereira, née Wittgenstein, the sister of Baron von Handel.

The current building dates from 1834. It was erected on the site of the dilapidated moated castle, which had stood on the island in the nearby pond. It is a two-story, rectangular building with a clearly set-off central risalit, a superimposed triangular gable, and a simply broken hip roof. The castle and the surrounding grounds were acquired by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1949 and developed into a school (Seminar Schloss Bogenhofen). This is an educational center of the Protestant free churches, which, in addition to theological study programs, offers a state-recognized upper secondary school with instrumental instruction and health education and an attached boarding school, where students from all over the world are taught.