Geiersberg Castle (Lebing)
| former Geiersberg Castle | ||
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 Geiersberg Castle (Lebing), the drawing is fictitious |
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| Creation time : | 12th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Followers | |
| Place: | Oberlebing / Reifegger | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 16 '56 " N , 14 ° 38' 16" E | |
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The castle Geiersberg (Lebing) is an abandoned hilltop castle in the Regensburg Luß above the Naar valley in the later cadastral and local community of Oberlebing in today's nature park community of Allerheiligen in the Mühlkreis in the Perg district in Upper Austria .
history
In the 12th century, followers of the high freemen von Lengenbach and later the Kuenringer from the Regensburg castle Windegg called themselves Öder von Geiersberg. They had their headquarters in a small castle in Oberlebing near the Reifegger farm. Around 1417 Geiersberg was owned by Stephan von Ludmannsdorf.
The castle was destroyed by a fire in the middle of the 15th century and no longer rebuilt. The church of All Saints was built from the material of the castle.
At the beginning of the 1920s, Geiersberg Castle was one of the motifs on Lebing's emergency money notes .
legend
According to a legend, the lords of Geiersberg were an old knight family in the late Middle Ages at the beginning of the 15th century. The owner is said to have been a Jew, which is why the nearby village is called Judenleiten, where there is also said to have been a Jewish school in Berghäusl No. 7. The castle, which was last inhabited by a Ludmannsdorfer and his wife Margarete, daughter of Count von Falkenstein, was attacked and burned down in 1418. The ashlars of the castle are said to have been used to rebuild the church in All Saints' Day.
literature
- Alois Aumayr, Roland Huber, Josef Kiesenhofer, Karl Kitzmüller, Leopold Josef Mayböck , Martin Lehner, Municipal Office of All Saints in the Mühlkreis (editor and publisher): All Saints in the Mühlkreis 1492 to 1992 - A home book for the parish and community of All Saints in the Mühlkreis - 500 years of pilgrimage church , All Saints' Day 1992.
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Hohensinner : Etymology and folk etymology based on the place name book of the state of Upper Austria, districts of Freistadt and Perg. In: Yearbook of Upper Austria. Museum Association. Volume 148/1, Linz 2003, p. 101f, PDF on ZOBODAT .