Haiming Castle

At Haiming Castle, among others, the nobles of Tobelham, Pelkofen, and Pöring reigned. The castle owners were endowed with superior ownership of the land and lower jurisdiction. In 1667, Haiming came into the possession of Baron Adam Kaspar von Freiberg through marriage. After the death of Baron Karl von Freiberg, his widow Maria Theresia, née Baroness von Gemel, established a weekly mass for him in the Haiming parish church on February 1, 1786. She married Baron von Berchem, rent master of Burghausen, to whom the lordship along with the Piesing estate fell.

Under the Berchems, the Hofmarken were united. The old moated castle was demolished between 1837 and 1840. From 1838 to 1840, Count Sigmund von Berchem built the new Haiming Castle, located above the castle pond.

After the extinction of the Counts of Berchem in 1869, Sigismund Felix Freiherr von Ow, the 14-year-old son of Josefine, the eldest daughter of Sigismund Count von Berchem and the district judge and district administrator Felix Freiherr von Ow, became the owner of Piesing and Haiming. He became a priest and handed over the inherited properties to his brother Anton Freiherr von Ow. Sigismund Felix became Bishop of Passau in 1906. To this day, the Ows reside in both Piesing and Haiming.