Lindach Castle

Lindach Castle is located in the eponymous district of the municipality of Laakirchen in the Gmunden district of Upper Austria (Lindach 4, 5a). The entire complex consists of an elongated main house, an opposite farm building, and the Church of St. Margaret. Today, the castle is also used as an event venue for festivities.

Lindach was first mentioned in a document in 1080. At that time, it belonged to the dominion of Ort in the Traunkreis. In 1130, the "noble seat of Dorff and Lindach" was mentioned. In 1470, Leopold Hayden von und zu Dorff received Lindach as a knightly fief.

The transformation of the castle chapel into a Baroque Church of St. Margaret took place in 1680 by Christoph Adam Hayden von Dorff zu Lindach. The main altar, the side altars, and the pulpit were erected in 1682. The burial chapel of the Haydens zu Lindach is also located here. Lindach had in the meantime become a princely fief.

Christoph Hayden's only daughter, Maria Theresia, brought Lindach as a dowry into her marriage with Karl Josef Oktavian von Frey in 1758. In 1780, the castle was enlarged. Lindach remained in the possession of the Freys until 1810. Then Franz Seraph von Frey sold Lindach with all associated businesses to the bourgeois corporate group of Georg and Elisabeth Steinhuber, who appointed administrators in Lindach. The castle housed the first sugar factory in Upper Austria. Under the administrator Andreas Both, sugar production and schnapps distillation were abandoned, while beer brewing was modernized. In 1846, Lindach was owned by Anton Karl Hafferl and his family. In 1870, Lindach was severely damaged by a fire.

In 1876, Daniel Ritter von Hornbostel was the owner of Lindach. In 1908, Lindach came into the possession of a company. In 1926, another fire broke out, again causing great damage. Afterwards, Lindach came to Hannes von Matuschka. This family still inhabits the castle today.