Aigenegg Castle

Aigenegg Castle is located in the present-day municipality of Thalheim bei Wels in Wels-Land at Bruckhofstraße 1. The building acquired its current form as a castle between 1910 and 1913. Previously, it was a brewery and an estate.

Originally, the site of the castle was an estate belonging to Kremsmünster Abbey, which was sold in 1354 to the Wels citizen Hartneid Krämer. The castle owes its origin to a brewery established by Wolf Weinbergmayr in 1610. He was a peasant leader during the Peasants' War and was sent by Stefan Fadinger in 1626 for negotiations with Emperor Ferdinand II. In 1629, Weinbergmayr received brewing rights. Another owner of the brewery, which at that time belonged to the guild in Lambach, was Georg Obauer in 1701. His son Johann Josef succeeded him, followed by Josef Georg Obauer. The last Obauer died in 1831. At that time, about 4000 buckets of beer were brewed annually. Michael Kiener, who married into the family, sold the brewery in 1846 to Alois Wieser. Further owners were Josef Rohrhofer in 1906 and Anton Reisegger in 1908. Under him, the brewery came to the Wels Brewing Cooperative, and the Thalheim operation was shut down. Already in the 19th century, the building was referred to as "Schloss Aicheck".

Anton Gartner von Romansbrück acquired Aigenegg through an exchange with the Brangen family. The castle owes its current appearance to him, which resulted from the construction of a new roof truss and the current tower. In 1913, the castle came to Josefine Gilnow, in 1922 by purchase to Moritz Maas, in 1923 to Thomas Weber, in 1924 to Hans Kierner, in 1929 to Heinrich Voraberger, and in 1955 to Josef Eska, a glove manufacturer from Sudetenland; he established a glove production here that no longer exists today. The current owners are Paul and Franziska Loos.