Mühlgrub Castle

Mühlgrub Castle (also known as Grueb in the Traunviertel) is located in the eponymous district of the municipality of Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall in the Steyr-Land district of Upper Austria (Mühlgruber Straße 42).

Mühlgrub Castle emerged from the free manor of Grub (until 1415 it was simply called Grub). This was the seat of the Asperger von Aspertgerhof, who had received it as a fief from Kremsmünster Abbey. The manor is already mentioned in a Kremsmünster urbarium in 1299. The last of the Asperger was a Wolfgang, who, however, only owned half of the property, the other half belonged to a relative named Hans Pucher. Wolfgang's daughter Barbara was married to Hans Mühlwanger and inherited her father's share. In 1415, Hans Mühlwanger also bought the other part. Since that time, the seat has been called Mühlgrub. Under the Mühlwangers, it was converted into a Renaissance castle. In 1529, a Hans Mühwanger sold the castle to Hanns Greimatschmied. His heirs sold the property in 1544 to Hieronymus Prändl von Weissenbach, from whom it passed to the Wuecherer family six years later. The iron master and regional scribe of ob der Enns, Christoph Strutz, took over the property from Georg Wuecherer in 1601. In 1615, Hans Fenzl von Steyr succeeded him. In 1633, his daughter Elisabeth received Mühlgrub and brought the castle into her marriage with Wolfgang Jakob von Katzianer. In 1658, Siegmund Ferdinand von Katzianer sold the dominion to Veit von Gera, who, however, died in the same year. From his heirs, the dominion passed in 1659 to Schlierbach Abbey, which owned it until 1876. Then Gottlieb and Anna Pepöck bought the property. Their successor, Hans Hager, founded a brewery in 1891. The castle and brewery are now owned by the Fein family. The brewery ceased operations in 1986. In the 1970s, the world's largest bottle filling plant for "Schartner Bombe" was built here. Today, the castle is owned by the company "Country Home Style".