Hall Castle

Hall Castle is located in the municipality of Bad Hall in the district of Steyr-Land in Upper Austria (Linzerstraße 1). Today, it houses the "Seniorenwohnhaus Schloss Hall, Caritas for Care and Nursing".

During the Wittelsbach rule over Hall in the 13th century, there was probably a small castle here with several underground escape passages (remains of which are allegedly still visible in the cellar). The castle itself originated as a "liberated noble seat" in 1644 from a bourgeois house. In 1654, the town and the castle were handed over by Emperor Ferdinand III to Count Maximilian von Trautmannsdorf as a pledge. From him, it passed to his son Adam Mathias, married to Eva Johanna von Starhemberg. The next in the line of owners was their son Johann Josef, married to Countess Maria Therese von Paar. Their son Franz Norbert, married to Countess Florentia Josefa von Gavre, received the title of Imperial Count and called himself Imperial Count von Trautmannsdorf and Baron von Gleichenberg.

Hall remained in the possession of the Trautmannsdorfs until 1848, then followed by bourgeois owners. Julie Merzeder and Karl Masarei (1860) are known as such.