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Aigen Castle
Aigen Castle is located in the municipality of Atzbach in the Vöcklabruck district of Upper Austria (Atzbach 77) at an altitude of 465 m above sea level.
The first mention of Aigen occurred in 1447 or 1449. At that time, Aigen was a fief of the Wallseer family. Around 1600, the former castle was converted into the present-day palace. It was then owned by the Querrer von Wolfsegg family. Around 1750, Mathias Ostermann owned the castle, followed in 1757 by Franz von Hausladen and his descendants.
Further owners included: Karl Pucher (1809), the Panholzer family (1817–1824), Michael Pühringer, Benedikt Heiliger (1826), Juliane Heiliger (1831), Johann Nepomuk Gaugl (1835), Viktor Dronat (1837), Mathias Lanzentorfer (1838), Leopold Krempl (1849), Carl Hochleitner (1851), Johann Castaldo (1853), Oswald Freiherr von Stenglin (1870), Maria Freein von Spiegelfeld (1872), Josef Lippmann Ritter von Lissingen (1874), Eugenie von Wurzbach-Tannenberg (1902), Franz Schuster (1904), Friedrich Wisse (1910), August Fieger (1914), Heinrich Koran (1917–1938), Clemens Auer, E. Schausberger (1967).
After the Second World War, Aigen Castle was confiscated as German property. The last tenant from 1947 to 1949 was Arthus Harthauser. It then stood empty until 1967.
Today, the castle is brought to life by cultural events.
Description+
The castle stands within an area enclosed by a stone wall. On the access side, in place of a gatehouse, there is a two-winged, wrought-iron gate. The castle is two-story and hook-shaped. It has a broken mansard roof with four corner turrets, seated on consoles, also with broken roofs and an onion dome crowned by a finial. The windows on the ground floor are equipped with wrought-iron window baskets. In the castle courtyard, there is a triangular coat of arms of the Querrer family with the year 1593.
The castle has been frequently rebuilt, its current appearance dates from the end of the 20th century. The formerly existing castle chapel is no longer present. The castle has been fundamentally renovated by the Schausberger family since the 1970s of the last century.
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