To be privately owned
CastleLengau-Teichstätt
Teichstätt Castle
Teichstätt Castle is a castle in the village of Teichstätt, municipality of Lengau, district of Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria.
The place Teichstätt was already referred to as Tisteti in a Mondsee tradition at the time of Duke Tassilo III, but a manor only emerged 700 years later.
The history of the castle begins with its first documented mention in the Friedburg Urbar, which was created between 1363 and 1430. Teichstätt Castle appears as Thoman des Rewter lehen[...]Hof zu Teystett. By 1483 at the latest, the castle was owned by the Rainers, as in that year an Alexius Rainer named himself after Teichstätt and the neighboring Erb Castle, both of which were Bavarian fiefs. In 1558, the Bavarian Landtafel stated about Teichstätt: In the village of Teichstätt there is a Purkstal and a Pauhof nearby, which Ludewig Rainer holds. The present castle was built in its current form between 1563 and 1566 under Ludwig Rainer. He was also the administrator of Frankenburg.
The Rainers remained in possession of the castle until 1591, when Kasimir Rainer zu Erb and Teichstätt sold it to Hans Albrecht von Pirching zu Sigharting. Already in 1593, the castle was resold to the Burghausen Regimentsrat Dr. Georg Hägl. Since he could not raise the purchase sum, in 1597 the Bavarian official Dr. Johann Fischer from Burghausen was found as the new buyer of Teichstätt Castle, who was appointed government chancellor and fief provost of Burghausen in September 1600. In 1659, the castle almost completely burned down, but was rebuilt by Franz Vischer, albeit in a simplified manner.
The Vischers remained in possession of the castle until 1732. In that year, the heiress Maria Anna Constantia Theresia Vischer married Paul Anton Joseph von Hackledt, whereby the estate came into the Hackledt family. Maria Cäcilia Carolina von Hackled sold Teichstätt Castle on August 26, 1833, for 3,100 guilders to the patrimonial judge of Braunau, Wenzel Schüga. His son-in-law Matthias Schrems owned the castle from 1855 to 1879, which, along with its properties, was converted into a farm during the 19th century.
From 1879, the estate came to Franz Moser from Ameisberg, who had the loopholes bricked up and also removed all other remaining defensive structures. His descendants continue to run the former castle as an agricultural enterprise (Schlossbauer) to this day.
Architectural Description+
The castle is situated on an elongated low ridge above the Schwemmbach stream and can be recognized from a wide distance to the east by its two flanking massive round towers. However, if one approaches from the west side, the building looks more like a large farm than a castle. The main building is elongated and measures approximately 35 x 10 meters. At the entrance on the west side, a red marble plaque with a double coat of arms of the Rainers and the Giengers commemorates the construction of the castle by Ludwig Rainer in 1563.
„This building was started
by the noble and steadfast
Ludwig Rainer zu
Erb and Teichstett, at that
time administrator of Frankenburg
in the year 1563
and completed in the third year
thereafter.“
To the west of the main building are the beginnings of a northern and a southern side wing. These side wings were formerly longer and were demolished after a fire in 1659 (some foundations are still visible). The two round towers, which were formerly covered with wooden shingles, have been covered with clay tiles, like all roofs, since the last restoration. The use of the former castle for agriculture necessitated some additions and adaptations, but some wrought-iron window grilles and remarkable vaults in the interior still reveal the castle-like character of the main building.
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