!!!Puchheim

Puchheim, Upper Austria, town and castle in the municipality of 
Attnang-Puchheim in the district of Voecklabruck. A noble family of 
ministerials named itself after Puchheim in the 12%%sup th/%  century, 
but exchanged its main residence for Litschau and Heidenreichstein 
Castles in Lower Austria in 1348. The members of this house later bore 
the titles baron and count and had their residences in Goellersdorf, 
Raabs, Krumbach and Horn in Lower Austria. During the Reformation 
several members of the house possessed considerable influence among 
the Lower Austrian nobility. The Horn line of this house was 
expropriated in 1622; in 1657 the Krumbach line died out, the Raabs 
line in 1702 and the Goellersdorf line in 1718. Important members were 
Pilgrim III (b. before 1314, d. 1384), chancellor 
to Duke Albrecht III, and Archbishop Pilgrim II of Salzburg 
1365-1396. In 1608 the castle of Adam von Puchheim of the Horn line 
was used by the members of the nobility who attempted to form an 
alliance against Archduke Matthias.

!Literature
K. Gutkas, Ein oesterreichischer Staatsmann des 
14. Jahrhunderts., Jahrbuch fuer Landeskunde von 
Niederoesterreich 32, 1957.


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