Weyer Castle

The Weyer estate was first mentioned in 1446 as a fief of the Ort dominion. In 1596, Abraham von Rohrbach, who had acquired the farmstead “am Weyer,” built the current castle. Subsequently, ownership changed hands frequently, including to Maximilian Hackelberger von Höhenberg und Arbesbach in 1606 and to the Gmunden citizen Leopold Pötsch in 1613. Master forester Hans Christoph Rottner acquired the castle in 1621 and was able to restore the noble freedoms for the property in 1624. In 1627, it passed to Count Adam von Herberstorff, who gifted it to Hans Christian Schmitzberger. After Schmitzberger's death, his widow sold Weyer in 1651 to Dr. jur. Georg Scharl, who in turn sold it in 1653 to Johann Adam Spindler von Hofegg. Through marriage, it later came into the possession of Christoph Benedikt Hayden von Dorff.