Bogenhofen Castle

Bogenhofen Castle is located in the village of Bogenhofen, which belongs to the municipality of St. Peter am Hart in Upper Austria.

Originally, Bogenhofen was a single-story wooden building. Even the copper engraving by Michael Wening suggests a farmhouse rather than a castle. In 1438, Bogenhofen was sold by Hanns Rohrer and his wife Margarethe, née Seiboltsdorferin, to the Bavarian Chancellor Andreas Loder. In 1451, the seat received "Hofmark freedom and justice" from Duke Ludwig of Lower Bavaria. His son Leonhard Loderer named himself Pogenhofner after the property; the Pogenhofners resided here until 1677. Successors through inheritance were the Pintzenauer (Pienzenau), from whom it again passed through marriage to the Barons von Nothafft. Through 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 Riesenfels, who exchanged the property for Haitzing. Afterwards, the Bogenhofen estate was merged with Hagenau Castle. In 1831, Kajetan and Josephine Plaichinger acquired the property, and under them, the reconstruction into an Empire castle began in 1834. From them, Countess Anna von Geldern acquired it in 1842, and in the same year, 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.