Wanghausen Castle

Wanghausen Castle is a castle in the municipality of Hochburg-Ach, district of Braunau, Upper Austria.

The castle was first mentioned in writing in 1240 in the "Monumenta Boica" and in 1280 in the Meier Helmbrecht epic (as Wanchusen). However, Wanghausen is older; it was the seat of the Achers, the first of whom, Herbordus de ache, was documented as early as 1180. Georg Acher had the castle built as a single-story structure in the 12th century. After the Achers, the Kematers followed in 1406. The last Kemater was Christoph Kemater (died 1585); his widow Felizitas then married Georg Viktor Stückl; he sold the castle in 1623 to Erasmus G(K)ratzer. He was followed by Christoph Scharz and then the Barons Prielmayr. In 1848, it was sold to Baron Wening-Ingenheim. The castle then came into the possession of the manufacturer Heinrich Nitzel, then followed by a pharmacist Christensen from Landau an der Isar, and from 1861-1863, a Leon Bachem. He was followed in 1870 by Rudolf Graf Hoyos, who sold the castle in 1887 to Countess Amalie Lesconitz von Reichenbach. In 1893, Wanghausen came into the possession of the mine owner Paul Ziegler from Pilsen, and then by inheritance to his son Walter Ziegler (1859 to 1932). He was succeeded by his daughter Waltraud von Gruber-Rehenburg, who sold the castle with its former hunting lodge in 1962 to Brunnhölzel from Burghausen.

Until 1799, when the Innviertel became part of Austria, it belonged to the judicial district of Burghausen, which is located on the opposite side of the Salzach. Burghausen belonged to the Archdiocese of Salzburg for a long time.