Alt-Hagenberg

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Burgstall Alt-Hagenberg
Burgstall Hagenberg today

Burgstall Hagenberg today

Alternative name (s): Althagenberg, Hauser Burgstall
Creation time : 1168 (first documented mention)
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, remnants of former walls
Place: Hagenberg municipality in the Mühlkreis
Geographical location 48 ° 21 '57.6 "  N , 14 ° 30' 40.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '57.6 "  N , 14 ° 30' 40.7"  E
Height: 380  m above sea level A.
Alt-Hagenberg (Upper Austria)
Alt-Hagenberg

The Burgstall Alt-Hagenberg is an abandoned spur castle in the municipality of Hagenberg in the Freistadt district of Upper Austria . It can be located to the west of Hagenberg Castle, separated from the castle by the deeply cut valley of the Visnitz . This former castle was located on a projecting 380  m above sea level to the southeast . A. high slope spur, which was previously called "Schlossberg".

history

Due to the burnt clay chunks and a few ceramic shards, it can be assumed that the castle was built in the 12th century. According to the records of the Garsten Monastery , a "Herando de Hagenperc" is mentioned in 1168 when he acquired a "Neugereut". 1186 a "Suvichardus de Haginperc" is mentioned. Presumably the Hagenpercer family are servants of the Styrian Otakars . It is not known when and how the original facility was demolished or destroyed.

Alt-Hagenberg today

The former Burgplatz forms a sharp edge on the northeast side that slopes down towards the Visnitz. It lies on an approximately 200 m long slope spur, which at first rises level and then gradually rises to a small group of rocks and then drops 60 m to a cross ditch. The built-up area is about 25 m flat and drops in south-east direction after a rock group likewise about 25 m down to a steep slope.

The excavation results produced a rectangular floor plan of the facility with a built area of ​​approx. 6 m × 15 m. The wall thickness was 90 cm. A plan sketch shows three parts of the building within the complex, which were presumably enclosed by a wooden battlement . In the larger room, a kitchen or blacksmith's shop (finds of molten iron, horseshoe nails and square long nails indicate this) were found, the chimney of which was attached to the outer wall. The stove appears to have been built on a rock and - as can be deduced from the charcoal layer - to have been about 2 m × 1.7 m in size. There was an outhouse on the side of the Visnitz Gorge. Remnants of half-timbered walls (intermediate wall?) That cannot be precisely assigned were also found. A layer of charcoal covering the entire room may have come from a burned-down wooden floor. Above this room there was probably a first floor with a living room, to which a staircase inside the house led. Some fragments of a large pot attest to the way in which the water was stored; a cistern was not found. Outside of this large room there was a 4 m × 4.4 m building that may have served as a stable (a horseshoe nail was found). Another hut was located behind the larger part of the building.

In front of the castle was a 10 m wide and previously 3.5 m deep ditch , over which a bridge led. Until recently, the stones that formed the bridge support were still there.

In the winter of 2008/09, the previously well-preserved castle stable was largely destroyed by the landowner Josef Gradl. The remains of Alt-Hagenberg were placed under monument protection in 2010, but the appearance of the castle stable has changed massively as a result of these interventions. This destruction is interpreted as a result of forestry profit maximization thinking, through which the ditch delimiting the facility was filled in with excavated material in order to be able to plant some trees.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steingruber, p. 63.

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