Dietach Castle

Dietach Castle is located in the municipality of Schleißheim in the district of Wels-Land.

As early as 1170, a Rudolf von Dudich appears in a document from Kremsmünster Abbey. In 1260, Ulrich von Tuedich is named as the feudal lord. Kremsmünster granted Diedach at the end of the 14th century to Hans von Liechtenstein, the court master of Duke Albrecht III of Austria. However, he fell out of favor with his sovereign in 1395 and was imprisoned in Pernstein Castle. Consequently, Kremsmünster lost its feudal sovereignty over Dietach.

In 1383, Duke Albrecht III allowed the Wels citizen Ulrich Haunold to build the seat at Tuedich in stone, but on the condition "that the wall not be thick". The Haunolts remained owners of the princely fief of Dietach until 1429. Then Kaspar Haunolt sold the tower at Dietach to Jakob Gulher. His successor was his son-in-law Jörg vom Laymbach. Through a petition from Jakob Gulher's widowed daughter, who had remarried a Pirchinger, to Emperor Friedrich III, the fief came to her son from her second marriage, Hans Pirchinger. In 1438, a Clemens Pirchinger was in possession of Dietach. The Pirchigers, originally from Sigharting and followers of the Schaunbergers, carried out the first extension of the tower. The last Pirchinger at Dietach was Gregor Pirchinger, who died in 1550. Thereafter, Dietach passed to the Segger von Messenbach, who in turn sold the property in 1593 to Julius von Grienthal. The Grünthalers were a noble family who had already participated in the Crusades and came from the Regensburg area; they remained resident in Dietach until the middle of the 18th century. The current design of the two-story castle is attributed to Philipp von Grienthal. Previously, the castle was entirely surrounded by a pond.

In 1764, Dietach passed to Count Fieger, who shortly thereafter sold the castle to Count Gottlieb von Clam. Dr. Josef Preuer owned the castle between 1803 and 1842; in the following years, ownership changed several times. On October 2, 1887, Dietach Castle was sold by Friedrich Kmoch to Baroness von Bees, née Countess Zdenka Kokorowa. Since 1846, the Viennese court and judicial lawyer Dr. Josef August Eltz had owned the castle. Hermann Josef Kudlich, brother of the "peasant liberator" Hans Kudlich and later a member of the Frankfurt Parliament, lived with his father-in-law Eltz for several years.