Loch Castle (Pinswang)
| Castle Loch | ||
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 Loch Loch - general view from the east |
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| Creation time : | around 1200 to 1265 | |
| Castle type : | Cave castle, hillside location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Noble Free | |
| Construction: | Rubble stones | |
| Place: | Pinswang | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 32 '55 " N , 10 ° 40' 34" E | |
| Height: | 855 m above sea level A. | |
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The castle hole is the ruin of a small rock castle on Pinswang in Reutte in Tyrol .
location
The castle is located at 855 m above sea level on the southern flank of the Schwarzenberg . It was created in a natural grotto halfway up the slope.
history
The castle was probably laid out in the 13th century by the noble lords of Rettenberg-Hoheneck , who had another base nearby with Vilsegg Castle . In 1265 a Burgmann Conradus de Foramine ( Loch ) is documented as a witness of a Seelgerätsstiftung at the St. Mang monastery in Füssen .
The small fortress appears in the Tyrolean Rait books from 1315 onwards , and by this year at the latest the complex must have been in the possession of the Counts of Tyrol. The transfer of ownership was obviously violent, as over 33 marks had to be spent on repairs at the time. The background to this was the dispute between the Lords of Hoheneck and the Counts of Montfort and the Counts of Tyrol for supremacy in the Lech Valley.
The castle keepers on Loch were subordinate to the captains of the nearby Ehrenberg Castle . In 1328 the castrum in Loch was besieged again. It is possible that the Hoheneckers wanted to undo the loss of the castle, but the siege seems to have been unsuccessful.
In 1348 the population of the Lechtal was subordinated to the keeper of Ehrenberg Castle, the territorial formation of the Ehrenberg court was thus largely completed. The small cave castle had become largely superfluous, from 1352 onwards no castle guardians were appointed. The facility appears to have been abandoned shortly thereafter.
In 1552 the inventory of Ehrenberg Castle reported 394 "falcon balls" that were "found in the hole ". The ruins probably served again in 1546 as a fortification against the troops of the Schmalkaldic League , who crossed the border here near Füssen .
The chronicler Matthias Burglechner can only tell of one ruin in 1609 ( ... there was a castle in front of vil Jaren, as the Veste Loch is called ).
investment
A few remains of the wall have survived from the castle.
The grotto is around 35 m wide and a maximum of 12 m deep and was closed off in the 13th century by a straight front wall. A section of the wall south of this wall dated to the 14th century could belong to a small gate fence.
In addition to an approximately 6.5 m long and approximately 2 m high remnant of the front wall made of rubble stones , part of an adjacent inner wall and another remnant of the wall have been preserved. Because of the less careful execution, these fixtures should be assigned to the restoration after 1315.
The location of the castle gate can no longer be clearly reconstructed, but the access was clearly from the east, in some cases probably via a wooden structure (rock cut-offs).
Below the castle is a mysterious rampart at the foot of the mountain, which was archaeologically examined in 1994 . Remnants of wood, dendrochronologically dated to the second half of the 13th century, suggest a function as an outbuilding for Loch Burg. Previously, the remains of the wall were sometimes interpreted as a Celtic square hill . Since this long rectangular rampart is located directly below the cave castle and the Roman road Via Claudia Augusta, which was used throughout the Middle Ages, runs through it lengthways, it is to be regarded as a medieval road block or system to secure the road; In a sense, as the valley station of the high cave castle.
literature
- Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume 7: Oberinntal and Ausserfern. Athesia et al., Bozen / Innsbruck / Vienna 1986, ISBN 88-7014-391-0 .
