Sitzenberg Castle

In the early Middle Ages, the area belonged to the Archbishops of Salzburg. A document from St. Florian in 1125 mentions a Sigahart de Sicinberch. He is likely to have given the castle its name. In 1186, the cathedral provosts of Regensburg from the Lengenbacher family were the owners of Sitzenberg. They probably received it from the Styrian Duke Otakar IV.

When Otto V von Lengenbach's family died out in 1236, the dominion became princely. In 1252, the Archbishop of Salzburg tried to assert claims to Sitzenberg. However, these were not recognized by King Ottokar. From the beginning of the 15th century, the Lords of Wehingen were the feudal lords of the castle.

In 1559, Joachim von Schönkirchen became lord of the castle, followed ten years later by Christoph Greiss von Wald. The latter undertook extensive renovations and gave the old castle the character of a Renaissance palace. From 1615 to 1649, the Barons of Eggenberg held the dominion, but it was withdrawn from Franz Andreas von Eggenberg due to high tax debts and sold in 1651 to Johann Christoph Geyer von Geyersberg. In 1687, Franz Anton Graf von Losenstein acquired the castle, but sold it again in 1692 to Baron Karl Gottlieb von Aichbühel.

His descendants, who now owned it not as a fief but as a free property, kept it with a brief interruption until 1802 and had it baroqueized in the meantime. Subsequent owners included Alois Graf Clam, the Barons Selderer, the Knights of Unknechtsberg, and the Knights of Rumerskirch. In 1945, it suffered severe damage. The last private owner was Baroness Valentine Springer, née Rothschild. She sold the castle to the state of Lower Austria in 1954. It was restored and has since served as a federal educational institution for agricultural women's professions.