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CastleBruck-Waasen
Bruck Castle
Bruck Castle is located in the Bruck district of the municipality of Bruck-Waasen in the Grieskirchen district.
A manor house in Bruck was built by the Schaunberger family around 1320. Hanns Vatershaimer was a Schaunberger administrator at Bruck and Erlach Castle. A document attests to Bruck in 1456. At that time, Hanns Vatershaimer was identified as the owner, who bequeathed the manor to his daughter Barbara. She brought the castle into her marriage with Wolfgang Herleinsperger (Hörleinsberger) in 1494 as a dowry. The property remained with the Herleinsperger family until 1609. Then followed Dietmar Schifer of Dachsberg Castle, who sold Bruck in 1617 to Baron Georg Achaz von Pollheim zu Puchheim. From him, it went to Wolf Jacob Strauß. In 1646, Bruck is referred to as a castle. His daughter, the widow of Achaz von Pollheim, sold the castle in 1647 to Johann von Verdenberg. In 1669, Georg von Kauthen acquired the castle, but exchanged it with Georg Graf von Sinzendorf for another estate. Under the Sinzendorfs, the estate of Bruck was united with Peuerbach. Due to a crime, Georg von Sinzendorf was convicted and lost all his possessions. These passed to the imperial court chancellor Dietrich von Strattmann.
The Meierhof (manor farm) was sold by Count Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf to Wolf Gessl on December 18, 1673.
Construction History+
As can be seen in Georg Matthäus Vischer's engraving from 1674, Bruck Castle was a manor house standing on a small elevation and surrounded by a water-filled moat. The moat was fed by the Aschach river. The building was three-storied with smaller parallel buildings on both sides. One of these outbuildings shows a six-storied clock tower. Access to the castle was secured by a gatehouse, to which a bridge over the Aschach led.
Parts of the castle were demolished in 1792. Only the main building of the castle remains. The gate tower, side buildings, and the surrounding moat (since 1960) have disappeared.
Today, the castle is barely recognizable as a castle building. The building is three-storied and clad with yellow Eternit shingles, like the adjacent buildings of the sports field. The original masonry is preserved. The hipped roof also still exists. The appearance has been greatly altered by the breaking out of windows and an extension on the left side in place of the residential bay window. Until 1962, the castle was used as a primary school. Even today, a beautiful avenue leads to the castle; the building is in great need of renovation and revitalization.
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