Scheibbs Castle

Scheibbs Castle is located on Rathausplatz in the center of Scheibbs (Lower Austria) and forms an ensemble with the parish church, town wall, and rectory. The former secular administrative seat of the Carthusian monastery of Gaming now houses the district administration of the Scheibbs district.

Scheibbs Castle is presumably a castle-church complex from the early Middle Ages, built at a strategically favorable point in the Erlauftal (intersection with the connection Waidhofen/Ybbs - Gresten - Scheibbs - Melktal) by the ancestors of the Counts of Peilstein and later became an essential part of the fortifications of Scheibbs.

In 1338, Duke Albrecht II gifted the market town of Scheibbs to his favorite foundation, the Carthusian monastery of Gaming. Thus, Scheibbs became the secular administrative center of the monastic lordship and the castle its core, on which its centuries-old tradition as an administrative seat is based.

After the dissolution of the Gaming Charterhouse in 1782, the ownership of the castle changed repeatedly. First, it came into the possession of the imperial state property administration, which sold the castle to Ignaz Müller in 1826. In 1829, Wenzel Joseph Ritter von Sallaba acquired the castle, and Johann Heinrich Freiherr von Sallaba sold it to Andreas Töpper in 1867. His widow Amalia Horst sold it to Eduard Musil, the owner of the Neubrucker paper mill. The subsequent owner of the paper mill, Fritz Hamburger, also acquired the castle in 1906, and since 1954, it has been owned by the Province of Lower Austria.