To be privately owned
CastleMühlheim am Inn
Mühlheim Castle
Mühlheim Castle is located on Schlossstraße in the municipality of Mühlheim am Inn in the Ried district of Upper Austria.
Mühlheim Castle was originally a moated castle and the ancestral seat of the Mulhamer family, who were first documented in 1120. They were likely vassals of Ortenburg. In the charter book of St. Nikola Abbey in Passau, a Macelinus de Mulham, his son Adelram in 1130, a Bero in 1180, and shortly thereafter Gottfried and Konrad de Mulham are mentioned. A Gebhard von Mulham, mentioned in 1297, was the last of his name. After that, there is a gap in the chronicle of Mühlheim. In 1383, a Wolfgang Trachselhamer (Tragselhaimer) appears as the owner of Mühlheim. From him, the castle passed in 1417 to the Thuemayr (also called Taimer). This family served the Bishops of Passau. The first Taimer was Gandolf, who died in 1424. Christoph Taimer was able to acquire the Hofmarkgerechtsame (lower jurisdiction) from the Bavarian Duke in 1556. Gundaker Taimer, who also owned Hagenau Castle and the Hofmark Wippenham, sold the castle in 1605 to his brother-in-law Sebastian von Haunsperg.
In 1624, Friedrich von Rhelling (the Rehlinger family originates from Salzburg) inherited the aging castle, which he had demolished in 1636 and replaced with a new castle. In 1693, Carl Franz Anton Graf von Safré, Bavarian Field Marshal, acquired the castle and Hofmark from the widow of Friedrich von Rhelling. In the 18th century, the noble families of Erbville, Nothafft, and Totti alternated in ownership. In 1804, Baron Johann von Peckenzell bought Mühlheim from the Marquise Maria Anna de Totti. During the Third Coalition War in 1805, the castle was plundered and set on fire by French troops. This castle was a three-story, four-winged building with an inner courtyard.
After this ruin lay fallow for 90 years, it was demolished in 1899, and the current castle was built on the site, partly using reusable material from the predecessor building. The builder was Julius Freiherr von Peckenzell, and the master builder was Anton Danna from Braunau. Peckenzell was married to Franziska Freiin von Aue, sister of Bishop Sigismund of Passau.
In 1919, the Viennese manufacturer Fischer-Pochtler acquired the castle from the Peckenzell family.
Mühlheim Castle Today+
The current castle is thus the third of this name. It is situated in the middle of a well-maintained park. Two two-story buildings connected by a gatehouse and another house standing in the inner courtyard form the castle ensemble. The right building stands with its narrow side perpendicular to the path, and an open archway spans from it to the first-mentioned wing. The left building on the garden side has an entrance accessible via an outdoor staircase. The three-axis central risalit has a broken gable at roof height, in the central field of which a stucco cartouche is embedded. This shows the coats of arms of the Peckenzeller and the Barons von Aue (also called Ave or Owe). In the archway are the coats of arms of the Rehlinger, Jörger, Haunsperger, and Totti. The castle chapel, built in 1645, was moved to residential building 2 in 1924.
The current castle is privately owned by the Viennese company ISI GmbH and was renovated in 1982, but cannot be visited inside.
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