Graben Castle
| Graben Castle | ||
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.jpg) Plan of the castle stable Graben by Johann Ev. Lamprecht |
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| Creation time : | around 1100 (first documented mention), destroyed in 1199 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, bank location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Graben, Kirchdorf am Inn community | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 17 '11.5 " N , 13 ° 15' 44.7" E | |
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The moat is a Outbound lowland castle ( Uferburg ) in the village ditch the church today Kirchdorf in District Ried from Upper Austria .
history
In the village of Graben, on the bank terrace of the Inn, there was a castle belonging to the Counts of Ortenburg and the Ahamer family . This was first mentioned around 1160. The castle was founded in 1199 during a feud between the Ortenburgers and Bishop Wolfker von Passau . He besieged the castle together with the Counts of Bogen and the Duke of Austria. 300 people are said to have died. After the capture, the bishop had the castle razed and forbade the Ortenburgers to rebuild it. He also had Obernberg Castle expanded in order to have secure border protection on the Inn.
In 1175, the representatives of Duke Heinrich and Probst Arno from Reichersberg Abbey met in the fortress of Graben to exchange goods. In the documents for the Reichersberg monastery, the following are mentioned as witnesses at Graben Castle: Hezilo von Graben (1180), Heinricus (1200), Wolframus de castro Graben (1220), the later probably all servants of the Diocese of Passau , the earlier of the Ortenburgers. Other documents speak of “in castro Grabn” in 1177 and “castro, quod tunc fuit ditch” in 1220 , an indication that the castle no longer existed at that time. In 1251, Count Heinrich II donated his holdings in Graben to the Passau cathedral chapter on the condition that these should always remain with the chapter.
Graben Castle today
In the description of Johann Ev. Before the turn of the 20th century, Lamprecht was still referred to as a “castle stable with a low castle hill close to the river water”, the majority of which had already been washed away by the floods of the Inn, and - as can be seen from the Lamprecht sketch - which on the south side it was enclosed in a horseshoe shape by four ditches and wall remnants and on the east side it was bordered by a deeply bedded little brook flowing out to the Inn. The area of this castle stable was given as around 2.5 hectares.
The substructure has apparently partially fallen into the Inn or was leveled by the landowners or because of the flood protection against the Inn. Today there is nothing left of Graben Castle, the former Burgplatz is used for events.
literature
- Markus Lorenz: The Counts of Ortenburg and their imperial county of Ortenburg until the Reformation was introduced in 1563 . In: Förderkreis Schloss Ortenburg (ed.): Ortenburg - Imperial Counties and 450 Years of Reformation (1563-2013) . Ortenburg 2013, p. 26-39 .
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 3rd edition . Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts' entire house of Ortenburg. Part 2: The Count's House in Bavaria . Rückert, Vilshofen 1932.
- Johann Ev. Lamprecht : Archaeological Forays (transcribed by Josef Fischer) . Unpublished manuscript. Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz.
- Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual by Norbert Grabherr . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives, Linz.