Edramsberg Castle
The castle Edramsberg stood in the same district of the municipality Wilhering in District Linz-Land of Upper Austria (Edramsberger Road 40).
history
The castle was the seat of the Edramsberg family, who were probably relatives of the Mühlbach family . As early as 1155, a Heitfogus de Edramesberge cum filiis Ditmaro et Hugone , who entered Wilhering Abbey as a converse , was documented. 1322 Gunther von Edramsberg and Chunrat his pruder von Mulpach are mentioned. In 1370 Edramsberg is owned by Count Ulrich von Schaunberg . In 1472 the seat came to Christoph von Hohenfeld as a princely fiefdom. During the Liechtenstein feud , Edramsberg Castle was besieged, conquered and destroyed in 1477 by the troops of Christoph von Liechtenstein , the owner of Ottensheim Castle . In 1484 the Bishop of Passau gave Edramsberg to Christian von Hohenfeld and his three sons in lifelong possession. When the castle fell into disrepair, the Hohenfelder received the Jochenstein fortress as compensation after a dispute with the Schaunbergers. An Erasmus Preising is also mentioned as the owner of Edramsberg, his wife was the daughter of Heinrich von Aistersheim .
A few years later, the St. Achatius Church was built on this site, presumably using the building material (also called Anna Chapel or Sebastian Chapel); this is mentioned for the first time in 1493. After a fire in 1733 the church is rebuilt. At the beginning of the 20th century it was so badly built that the church was demolished in 1936. When the church was demolished, three sandstone sculptures were found (human heads and rams), the date of which is still unclear. Some of these sculptures are kept in Wilhering Abbey.
Edramsberg Castle today
The location of the abandoned castle was always controversial. In 1936, a “local mountain, on which there was a chapel dedicated to St. Sebastian ” is mentioned; It refers to the location of the abandoned St. Achatius Church north of the “Mittermayrhof”, where the former castle is suspected with reservations. The tradition of the previous owners of the farm (the Pühringer family) reports that a “castle square” extended here; There should also be a strong foundation wall in this area.
Today nothing can be seen of the Edramsberg Castle, the foundation walls of which were still in place in 1960; the location at "Mittermayrhof" (Edramsberger Straße 40), which has been widely accepted, was leveled years ago. A small chapel was built on the site of the Sebastianikapelle.
literature
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Christian K. Steingruber : Research area Kürnberg: New knowledge about prehistoric and early historical soil monuments. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . 61st year, issue 3/4, Linz 2007 ( PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at).
- Christian K. Steingruber: Prehistoric and early historical monuments on the Kürnberg near Wilhering. In: Marktgemeinde Wilhering (Hrsg.): Wilhering. Volume 1, Verlag Denkmayr, Linz 2006 (compiled by H. Heisler with numerous photo contributions by Anton S. Kehrer).
- Christian K. Steingruber: A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz 2013.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Gruber: The sandstone sculptures of Edramsberg. In: Marktgemeinde Wilhering (Hrsg.): Wilhering. Volume 1, Verlag Denkmayr, Linz 2006, pp. 90–93.
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '18 " N , 14 ° 10' 36.8" E