Altpernstein Castle

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Altpernstein Castle
Altpernstein Castle.jpg
Creation time : around 1000
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Receive
Place: Micheldorf
Geographical location 47 ° 53 '6 "  N , 14 ° 9' 24"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '6 "  N , 14 ° 9' 24"  E
Height: 900  m above sea level A.
Altpernstein Castle (Upper Austria)
Altpernstein Castle

The Altpernstein Castle is a medieval castle in Micheldorf in Upper Austria in the Kirchdorf an der Krems district in the Traunviertel . It is a spur castle with a neck ditch on a slope of its local mountain, Hirschwaldstein .

Around the castle there are also 35.88 hectares of protected landscape area ( lsg16 , 2006).

location

The castle stands about 400 meters above the Kremstal , at 900 meters above sea level. It is overlooked by a good 200 meters from its local mountain.

The brick access bridge and moat

As the castle stands on a rocky promontory, it is surrounded on three sides by almost vertically sloping steep walls and on the fourth side by a moat . It can only be reached via a brick bridge that replaced a drawbridge in the 18th century.

The entrance to the castle is the lowest point of the roughly saddle-shaped rock over which the structure was built. From the guest terrace you can see that the rock on the valley side reaches up to the third floor just below the roof structure.

history

Bernstain Castle . Engraving from Vischer's Topographia Austriae superioris modernae (1674)

The castle was built around 1000 and was mentioned in documents in 1160 and 1207. Pillung von Pernstein (documented 1170-1200), a ministerial of the Otakare , and his descendants were followed in 1222 by the Truchsener (Ministerial Heinrich von Grafenstein, 1255: Ulrich von Truchsen), who were able to convert the previous fief into free ownership . This was acquired by Governor Eberhard V. von Walsee in 1337 . In 1394 Johann I von Liechtenstein was taken over by the then Duke of Austria, Albrecht III. to Habsburg , appointed lord of the castle. However, he fell from grace and got to know his property together with his family only as a prisoner. In 1529 the castle was triggered by Christoph Jörger , and in 1581 it passed into the possession of the Jörger. There was a lot of construction activity under the Jörgern: the nave was built, which today makes up a large part of the complex. In 1607 they made the marble fountain in the inner courtyard. The Jörger were supporters of the Reformation and also ensured the spread of the evangelical faith in their manorial rule. From 1623 the castle was owned by Adam Graf von Herberstorff , who was responsible for the incidents known as the Frankenburger dice games . After his death in 1629, Kremsmünster Abbey acquired the land from his widow and is still the owner.

Even after the purchase by Kremsmünster, nurses still carried out their administrative work on Altpernstein, and it wasn't until around 1750 that the guardianship moved the official seat to Neupernstein Castle in the valley . The farm building formerly located under the castle complex was sold in 1879 and the modest livestock farming was integrated into the castle. Until the interwar period , Kremsmünster foresters lived with their families on the spacious grounds, then they moved to a newly built forester's house near the castle.

The castle portal with some seminar participants (2008)

The 650 square meters, with larch shingle covered roof was last renewed of 2006.

Meeting center

Until 2017, the castle was leased from the Kremsmünster Abbey by the Upper Austrian Catholic Youth and used as a meeting center. This began in 1946, when the then newly founded Catholic Youth renovated the first rooms of the castle, which was still completely uninhabitable at the time, in order to use them for events such as Landwerk Weeks for male and rural youth weeks for female youth. A lease agreement between the owner and the Diocese of Linz dates from 1961 .

The castle team usually consisted of nine people who lived and managed the castle. In addition to the persons responsible for building services, castle management, office, kitchen responsibility, castle parlor and the content-related speaker, the diocesan youth pastor and at least one civil servant also belonged to this team. Since autumn 2008 there has also been an FSJ post at the castle. The group of mostly young people lived at the castle all year round, as it was not closed at any time of the year. Usually a castle team member worked at the castle for two to five years before leaving it. Only the youth chaplain was exempt from this rule, as he kept his post as a chaplain for a long time. Civil servants and volunteers were only at the castle for the duration of their engagement (nine or ten months). The castle team existed since 1974.

Since the building no longer meets the requirements for fire protection and there is no barrier-free access, this use was terminated and the 99-year lease was terminated prematurely. The last event was a farewell party at Whitsun 2017. The facility has been closed since the contract was terminated in December 2017, and the Diocese of Linz continued to look after it until it was returned to Kremsmünster Abbey on June 30, 2018.

Institute for Social Competence

On July 1, 2018, a new lease, again limited to 99 years, came into force with the Linz Institute for Social Competence (ISK). The agreed rent is a symbolic amount. The ISK wants to hold holiday camps for children and youth groups and reopened the facility with a two-day festival on September 15 and 16, 2018.

investment

Steep walls on the valley side

Today's outer castle gate was originally the innermost of the three gates in the gatehouse. Before the second siege of Vienna by the Turks , it was shod with old iron armor and chest pieces, which still remain on the gate today. It has been in use for at least 320 years.

The inner courtyard of the castle is the smallest of its kind in Austria and probably also the smallest courtyard in Europe. Also noteworthy is the marble fountain, which testifies to the wealth of its builder (probably Hans V. Jörger ). Since there is no marble in the area, it had to be imported, which in the 17th century represented a great financial expense.

Below the baroque chapel, part of the supporting rock was blown up around 1990 to create a cooling room. Due to a mistake, cracks appeared in the chapel, which is structurally endangered.

  • The marble fountain

  • Castle chapel

  • Castle dungeon

See also

Web links

Commons : Burg Altpernstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Around 1740: Altpernstein Castle, ... the impulse and meeting center of the Catholic Jugend Land , Rohrbach in Upper Austria, January 31, 1998.
  2. ↑ a b burgenkunde.at , viewed on January 28, 2012.
  3. ↑ A journey through history. In: micheldorf.at. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Beda Piringer: Historical notes on the knight's castle Altpernstein in Upper Austria. Self-published by the author, Linz 1865; 2nd unaltered imprint: Jos. Feichtingers Erben , Linz 1871 (Brunnen p. 11, limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ a b Marktgemeinde Micheldorf (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Micheldorf . 1st edition. Trauner, Linz 1997, p. 31-45 .
  6. ↑ Spectacular roof renovation of Altpernstein Castle. Diocese of Linz, July 13, 2006, archived from the original on October 27, 2013 ; accessed on April 3, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b ooe.kjweb.at: historical data ( memento of March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), facts about the castle team ( memento of March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ Hannes Fehringer: Conversion is too expensive: Catholic youth are leaving Altpernstein Castle. In: Upper Austrian news. February 18, 2016, archived from the original on February 19, 2016 ; Retrieved February 19, 2016 .
  9. ↑ “Jugendburg” should live on. Article in the district Rundschau Kirchdorf , No. 28, 13. – 14. July 2017 pp. 2–3.
  10. ↑ Carina Kerbl: The future for the operation of Altpernstein Castle is uncertain , article in Tips Kirchdorf, 4th January 2018, week 1., p. 2 ( PDF ), accessed on 5th January 2018.
  11. ↑ Church newspaper Diözese Linz: Kremsmünster Abbey announces: Altpernstein remains youth castle , No. 17, April 26, 2018, vol. 73, p. 9, Parishes & Regions ( online , accessed on September 21, 2018).
  12. ↑ Hannes Fehringer: Altpernstein Castle is kissed awake at a two-day festival . Article in the Upper Austrian News from August 31, 2018.