Feyregg Castle

Feyregg Castle is located in the municipality of Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall in the district of Steyr-Land in Upper Austria (Feyregger Straße 2).

The first owner mentioned in 1170 was Otto Sunn, who still resided on a farm called "Feuerhube". This belonged to the princely Hofmark Hall. He was succeeded by his son Heinrich Sunn, who in 1234 Latinized his name to Ignis (= fire). The last of this family, named Walter der Feuer (Walter dicti fevr), sold the estate in 1378 to Helmhart Anhanger, who was succeeded by Peter Anhanger from 1400–1408 from Köppach Castle. Through marriage, Feyregg came to Eberhard Sinzendorfer († 1416) via Anhanger's daughter Barbara. He was enfeoffed with the seat by Duke Leopold IV of Austria in 1404. But it was not until 1408 that Peter Anhanger of Mühlgrub Castle released Feyregg. After her death, her son Siegfried from her first marriage took over Feyregg. From 1430 onwards, only the seat Feuereck (= Feyregg) is mentioned. In 1469, a Christoph Sinzendorfer is named here. His widow Amalie transferred the property to her son Christoph in 1485.

Leonhard Sinzendorfer's daughter Dorothea married Wilhelm Wiellinger von Au in 1560, who received half of the property; the other half went to his brother Balthasar, who was also married to a Sinzendorfer. He was succeeded in 1566 by the wealthy Steyr citizen Achaz Fenzl. Hans Fenzl's daughter, also named Dorothea, married Georg Schütter von Klingenberg. Schütter mismanaged his property, and so in 1631, the Abbey of Spital am Pyhrn bought the Feyregg property and converted it into a summer residence for its provosts. From 1717 to 1733, Feyregg was rebuilt into a Baroque castle by the master builder Johann Michael Prunner. A well-known stucco artist who worked on the castle was Johann Peter Spatz (1652). After the dissolution of the abbey, Feyregg came to the Benedictines of St. Blasien. However, they were then transferred to Carinthia.

After the dissolution of the abbey in 1807, Feyregg was incorporated into the Religious Fund and sold in 1812 to the Linz wholesale merchant Franz Planck, whose descendants owned Feyregg until 1905. Then Feyregg passed to Karoline von Teuber and her sister Helene Baronin von Ludwigsdorf, who were followed by Josef and Karoline von Teuber (1912) and since 1937 by the Harmer family. Since 1970, the south wing has been converted into a castle guesthouse.