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Schloss Kammer is a moated castle in Schörfling am Attersee (Hauptstraße 28) in Upper Austria. The alternative, obsolete name Kammersee for the lake refers to this castle and thus to the Salzkammergut. The castle, today located on a peninsula, originally on an island (with a jetty to the mainland) in the northern Attersee, is a massive, rectangular, three-story building with two low side wings enclosing a courtyard.

The stone model of the Attersee is really great.

The Pollheimersche lordship of Wartenburg is documented as early as 1319. Their original seat of power was Wartenburg Castle on the southern foothills of the Hausruck above the Vöckla, and from 1639 the Alt-Wartenburg Castle to the north, both derelict today. Neu-Wartenburg Castle is located on the right Vöcklauf, below the castle. The palace was built by the Viennese architect Anton Erhard Martinelli between 1730 and 1732 on behalf of Johann Albert Graf Saint-Julien-Wallsee (1673–1766). Count Wallsee bought the manor in 1729 from Nütz von Goisernburg, who had been there since 1640. He had Emperor Charles VI. invited to a falcon hunt for 3 days and wanted to offer him accommodation befitting his status. Already in 1754 he had to sell the property again because of debts. Through the Ghelen family, it passed to the nobles von Grechtler in 1766, to Thaddäus von Reischach in 1785 and to Ludwig Ratzesberg in 1847, until Albert Graf von Saint-Julien was able to bring it back into family ownership in 1869. The last heiress of the Saint-Julien family was adopted by Elisabeth Countess von Strachwitz; the castle has belonged to the von Strachwitz family since 1973.

With the appointment of the Schaunberger as bailiffs in 1249, the name Kammer appeared for the first time with Haidfalk von Chamer (Hæidfolcho de Chamer). A castle chamber is mentioned for the first time in 1260. This "Veste Camer im Adersee", later Schloss Kammer, was expanded on a small island in the lake by the Schaunbergers to become the administrative center of the Attergau. In the "Schaunberger feud" between the Habsburg Duke Albrecht III and Count Heinrich von Schaunberg, Reinprecht II of Wallsee conquered the moated castle in 1380. On the occasion of the peace treaty of 1383, the Schaunbergers were forced to sell Kammer to the duke. The now princely Attergau estates of Attersee/Kogl, Frankenburg and Kammer were pledged. As early as 1383, the governor of Upper Austria, Heinrich IV von Wallsee, was the first pledgee. The Jörger family followed in 1483 and from 1499 it was the Lords of Polheim. In 1540, the rich Hanns Hofmann, Baron of Grüenpüchel and Strechau, bought Kammer as free property, and in 1570 Kammer was bought back by the Habsburgs. To cover debts, Emperor Rudolf II finally had to sell the dominions in 1581 to his chamberlain and ambassador to Spain, Hans Freiherr von Khevenhüller. He was made a count in 1593. His three dominions, Frankenburg, Kogl and Kammer, now formed the County of Frankenburg. The moated castle, which could only be reached via a drawbridge, was significantly enlarged between 1622 and 1649 (construction of the knight's hall). Source: www.atterwiki.at

The Seeschloss Kammer is privately owned and can only be viewed from the outside!

The outer form of today's castle building goes back to Truchsess Jakob (1546-1589) and his wife Johanna (1548-1613). In the years that followed, they had it rebuilt from scratch in place of the one that had been destroyed by a chimney fire in 1578 and, as Zimmer's chronicle says, "a bewildered building made of wood and frame work". In the powerful, regular four-wing complex with the protruding corner towers, contemporary demands for living comfort and representation could finally be realized. The functional rooms were on the ground floor, the guest apartments were on the first floor and above them the living quarters of the count's couple. The highlight of a series of representative rooms is the main hall on the second floor of the west wing, the knight's hall, at the end of the main staircase rising from the portal hall. In front of this are the banquet hall and the picture room in the north wing. The building did not last long. On December 28, 1646, the troops of the Swedish Field Marshal Wrangel set it on fire during one of their campaigns through the Uplands. Although parts of the castle were preserved, the top floor in particular - and thus the main floor - went up in flames. The beginning of the reconstruction work was delayed until 1651 due to the hardship of the post-war period. The decisive phase in the furnishing of the representative rooms fell between 1691 and 1700. The leadership in the redesign of the representative rooms, both in terms of the stucco and the equipment As for sculptures, it was in the hands of the sculptor and plasterer Balthasar Krimmer (1653-1702) from Wangen. Drastic structural changes took place in the first half of the 18th century, when the guest apartments on the first floor were redesigned in Rococo style. In the late 19th century, a series of dining rooms were designed in keeping with the taste of the time. At that time, the palace chapel also received its neo-Gothic appearance. With the completion of the Gothic room, the adjoining rooms and the corridor at the end of the 19th century, the conversion work at Wolfegg Castle was complete.

The castle is only open to guests twice a year for major international concert series. Guided tours are also offered here. The royal family lives in the palace.

The palace and park are privately owned by the Strachwitz family and are not open to the public.