Alfred Höllhuber

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Alfred Höllhuber (2008) visiting a castle

Alfred Höllhuber (born May 4, 1919 in Gutau ; † October 17, 2008 in Reichenstein, Pregarten community ) was an Austrian regional and local researcher .

Live and act

Höllhuber grew up in Reichenstein Castle , where his father lived as the headmaster of the Reichensteiner School. Even during his high school days in Linz , his interest in castles was evident in a written thesis on the subject of castles and palaces in my immediate homeland . He was drafted into the military during World War II and then taken prisoner by the Soviets . After his return he worked as a primary school teacher in the lower Mühlviertel , in 1961 he became head of the primary school in Reichenstein.

In 1963 Höllhuber accidentally discovered archaeological finds on the grounds of Reichenstein Castle (during a thunderstorm, large amounts of archaeological artifacts had come to light there under the rootstock of a fallen elm ). As a result, he undertook further investigations on the famous Prandegg , Ruttenstein , Falkenstein and Klingenberg castles . In addition, he began with inspections and first digs on other hills in the Mühlviertel that looked promising to him. His main interest was the research of previously unexplored and hardly documented castle stables . So in 1967 he uncovered mortises in the rock floor on the Strafenberg , which he could interpret as the foundations of a wooden castle . During an excavation campaign in 1979, this facility was then exposed and numerous finds were secured. Since he noticed corresponding depressions on the nearby Herzogreither Rock, he was able to interpret these as the substructure of a medieval wooden castle. As a result, he extended his search to other mountain peaks in the Lower Mühlviertel and there again found traces of buildings as well as numerous objects found from the Middle Ages (e.g. at the Aegidi Church in Engerwitzdorf ). For more than 40 years Höllhuber devoted himself to researching the history of his region. Höllhuber published the results of his studies mainly in the yearbook of Upper Austria. Musealverein and the Upper Austrian Homeland Papers and from 1993 self-published.

Because of his historical and archaeological interests, Höllhuber built an extension in his house in Reichenstein in which he could store his finds (he collected 130,000 ceramic shards, among others). At the beginning, the collection he created was only accessible to schoolchildren in Reichenstein, but in 1984 he was able to open the Reichenstein Castle Museum here . The collection of found objects he set up meant that Höllhuber achieved great international fame among castle researchers. In 2005 the Höllhuber Collection was purchased by the Upper Austrian State Museum . This makes it possible to reprocess the finds from the current archaeological point of view. Further exhibits from the Höllhuber collection, found in Prandegg, Reichenstein, Falbenstein, Stampfegg or at the Aegidi Church are housed in the Reichenstein Castle Museum.

Höllhuber devoted himself above all to the builders of the early, "nameless" castles and the small lords in the Lower Mühlviertel. As a result, he dealt with a group of aristocrats or yeomaners who are barely comprehensible in the written sources of this time and if so, then their social rank and their economic and political possibilities cannot be recorded as a uniform group. Both in the high and in the late Middle Ages, social advancement through service with senior lords and social descent down to the peasant class was possible. This social diversity is also expressed in the castles he discovered and examined: Individual castles could, as Höllhuber interpreted, have been made entirely of wood, but most of the complexes were made of wood and stone. Some only had a relatively short lifespan, although we cannot say in individual cases whether armed events or a lack of economic foundations were the background to their agreement. From the late Middle Ages, a few large rulers such as the Prandegg, Reichenstein or Ruttenstein rulers prevailed over the smaller rulers, which was probably one of the reasons for the castles that died out in the 13th century.

Selected publications

  • Alfred Höllhuber, Leopold Josef Mayböck : Eagle's Nest and Devil's Pulpit: Araberg Castle. 2006. The Reichenstein Museum of Fragments. Mühlviertel messenger. 1973.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: Lid shapes of the high medieval Schwarzhafner dishes, documented by finds from ruins, castle stables and mountains of the lower Mühlviertel. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Linz 1975.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: A nameless wooden castle on the Strafenberg in the market town of St. Leonhard near Freistadt. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Year 34, Linz 1980, 141–165.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: Spinning whorl from the finds from Mühlviertel castles. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 126/1, Linz 1981, 79-109.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: Medieval oil lamps. From the finds of castle ruins, castle stables and places of former wooden castles in the lower Mühlviertel. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Volume 49/3, Linz 1995, pp. 208-224.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: The Reichensteiner pottery brand collection. Upper Austrian Museum Association, Linz 1979.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: ... duo castra Plasenstein ... - The two castles bubble stone. A contribution to determining their location, with a find report. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Linz 1979.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: The keep of the Veste Saxenegg. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Linz 1980.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: A treasure trove made of carrying wine. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Linz 1981.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: Wooden castles in the Mühlviertel. In: Windegger events. Information sheet Windegg working group. Schwertberger Kulturring, 1982.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: Castle stables, local mountains and other fortifications in the lower Mühlviertel. Indicator. Austrian Academy d. Sciences, phil.-hist. Class. Communications from the Commission for Castle Research and Medieval Archeology. 1983.
  • Leopold Josef Mayböck, Alfred Höllhuber: The market sword mountain and the castle Windegg. Contribution to the 700th anniversary of the market for Schwertberg and Tragwein in 1987. History sheets . 1987.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: My Reichenstein. Memories of an old schoolmaster of his life, especially of the research work in this legendary castle town. Reichenstein 1993.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: ain purkchstal called the Nesslstain ... Wallseer Lehenbuch 1446. A former wooden castle on the Nesselstein near Hackstock in the market town of Unterweissenbach, Freistadt district. Reichenstein 1994.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: The wooden castle on the Rametstein. A fortification that has been forgotten in the former northern forest. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Linz 1994.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: A nameless, lost wooden castle on the Herzogreither rock in the market town of St. Leonhard near Freistadt. Reichenstein 1995.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: The Reichenstein Castle Chapel - once a castle chapel, then a religious fund parish church in the time of Joseph II and, since 1942, the chaplaincy's church. Reichenstein 1995.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: Signs of salvation (?) On vessels from the high Middle Ages. Floor signs of seats and castles in the Lower Mühlviertel. Reichenstein 1996.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: Liebeneck, a wooden castle on the local mountain on the Kleine Naarn. Reichenstein 1998.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: Liebenstein a former high house (1571) on the summit rock of the Jankus wall or Januskirchen (1826). Reichenstein 1999.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: A fabulous wooden castle on the Lehrmüller walls near Tannermoor. Reichenstein 2000.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: The former wooden castle (a free farmer's seat) in Eschenreith near Liebenau. Reichenstein 2001.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: wooden castles, free farmers' seats in the lower Mühlviertel from Machland to far into the northern forest. Reichenstein 2002.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: The old Karelhof with the seat on the Falbenstein and other large clearing units in the Gutowa corridor (1155). Reichenstein 2003.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: The local mountain on the Great Naarn. Reichenstein 2004.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: Alt-Hagenberg, the former castle on the ancient salt route from Gusen on the Danube via Wartberg to Bohemia. Reichenstein 2005.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: Castles on all mountains, as well as the free farmers' residence on the Reichenstainischen Caluary Berg. Reichenstein 2007.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: As "Ostmärker" in the German Wehrmacht. Of serving the people in good faith. Reichenstein 2008.
  • Alfred Höllhuber: The Pregarten market at the time of the Babenbergs, founded on the land of free farmers. Reichenstein 2008.

Awards

literature

  • Christina Schmid: Professor Alfred Höllhuber (1919-2008) . In: Yearbook of Upper Austria. Museum associations - Society for regional studies 153 . Linz 2009, p. 519-521 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed November 1, 2013] obituary).
  • Otto Ruhsam: Prof. Alfred Höllhuber. Exhibition in Neumarkt im Mühlkreis . In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 1999 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schmid 2009, p. 519.
  2. ↑ a b c d Schmid 2009, p. 520.
personal data
SURNAME Höllhuber, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutau
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 2008
Place of death Reichenstein, Pregarten community