Auenstein Castle
| Auenstein Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Owinstein at Oez | |
| Creation time : | 1190/1200, 1259 only document. mention | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Ruins | |
| Place: | Oetzerau, municipality of Oetz | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 13 '0 " N , 10 ° 52' 36" E | |
| Height: | 1013 m | |
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The Castle Auenstein are the ruins remains of a hilltop castle in the district Oetzerau the municipality of Oetz in Imst district of Tyrol .
history
Auenstein is likely to have originated around 1200. At that time, after the fall of the Guelph Heinrich the Lion , the Counts of Ronsberg sought proximity to the Hohenstaufen emperors and received the margrave dignity from them. The castle originally functioned as a court seat in the Ötztal . When the Ronsberg family died out in the male line in 1212, ownership passed to Count Ulrich von Ulten, Margrave Heinrich von Burgau and the relatives of Count Gottfried von Marstetten via the two heir daughters Irmgard and Adelheid .
Auenstein Castle was at the center of a conflict between the Bishop of Brixen , the Count of Ulten, the Count of Ronsberg and the Count of Marstetten during the 13th century . The claim of the Bishop of Brixen goes back to a testamentary decree from Count Ulrich, who had received the fallen imperial fief in the Upper Inn Valley in 1212 after the Count of Ronsberg died out . This decreed that in the event of his death during a crusade against the Muslims, this imperial fief and his ancestral rights to St. Petersberg Castle should go to the Bressanone Monastery. But this was not the case, because Count Ulrich is still recorded in 1244 in St. Petersburg, which was then called Ulten. In 1248 the Ulteners sold their use of the St. Petersberg property to Emperor Friedrich II , from which the empire derived supremacy over the castle in 1263. Bishop Bruno von Kirchberg protested against this very fiercely. He tried to consolidate his claim by acquiring property titles in the Ulten area. He also put pressure on the Neustift monastery and Ita von Marstetten. The latter renounces her inheritance claims from the Ronsberg property in favor of her husband Berthold von Neiffen . In 1259 he donated the property complex that had been transferred to him to the Bishop of Brixen. There is talk of a simultaneous handover of the Awenstain antiquus locus municionis super fluvio dicto Ez . "Ez" represents the Latin spelling of the place and the Ache, which were usually given as "Etz". The term comes from the Old High German "etzen" and means "graze". Obviously Auenstein was owned by Berthold von Neiffen and was donated by himself.
Since the bailiwick rights had been transferred to the novum castrum St. Petersberg, Auenstein became unimportant and subsequently became a ruin. Nevertheless, it was important to Bishop Bruno to get this meaningless castle as well. When the Brixen claims to St. Petersberg flared up again in the 15th century, Auenstein was no longer the subject of claims.
Auenstein today
Burgplatz, high above Oetz, is located in the district of Oetzerau on a broad knoll formed by the glacier cut. In the north to the Auerklamm you reach a small baroque chapel shortly before a covered wooden bridge; The remains of Auenstein Castle are very close by.
The castle is protected in a semicircular shape by the Stuibenbach deepened like a gorge . The saddle, which connects the castle with the south-east opposite slope, shows no traces of a neck ditch . Three lining walls running parallel have been preserved , of which the middle one breaks at right angles at its southern end and then runs in the area. Presumably a rectangular building from the time 1190/1200 stood here. Little has survived from the bering that was placed around three meters from the central wall . The castle site is difficult to recognize due to vegetation.
In the Middle Ages, the shortest and therefore often used route led directly in front of Auenstein Castle from Ötztal via Kühtai into Sellrain and further into the Inn Valley.
literature
- Oswald Trapp ; Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (employee): Tiroler Burgenbuch. VII. Volume - Upper Inn Valley and Ausserfern . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1986, ISBN 88-7014-391-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Bitschnau: Auenstein . In Oswald Trapp & Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner, pp. 327–332.
- ^ Albert L. Lloyd, Otto Springer, Rosemarie Lühr, Karen K. Purdy:. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988, ISBN 978-3-525-20768-0 .
- ↑ Bernhard Stecher: wöll töll completely . Ed .: www.bp10.at. 2nd Edition. Oetz 2018, ISBN 978-3-200-05132-4 , pp. 132 .
- ↑ A castle that has almost disappeared ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Auenstein on the history of Tyrol
- Entry on Auenstein Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Auenstein castle ruins on Wehrbauten.at
- AUENSTEIN on ruins empire