Lonstorf Castle
| Lonstorf Castle | ||
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 Sketch of the location of the Lonstorfer Tower based on the local historian Franz Brosch |
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| Alternative name (s): | Lonstorf Tower | |
| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1150 | |
| Castle type : | Moated castle | |
| Conservation status: | abandoned structure (1477) | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 17 '15.8 " N , 14 ° 19' 20.5" E | |
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The location of the Lonstorf Castle or the Lonstorf tower (sometimes also referred to as the Lonstorf moated castle ) was near the Kefer farm in Lonstorf; today the area is built over by the Linz nitrogen works ( Borealis Agrolinz Melamine ).
history
The fortification or the tower was first mentioned in a document in 1150. It was probably their job to protect the overpass at Tafersheim .
Lonstorf Castle was the ancestral seat of the Lonstorf family . The first Lonstorf Udo (Hugo) is named as a servant of the Passau bishopric . The domain of Lonstorf was not particularly richly endowed, so that the Lonstorf people had to try very successfully for other income than the ministerial of the Diocese of Passau. Lonstorf remained in this family for more than two hundred years. The people of Lonstorf hardly managed their property themselves (an exception was Arnold von Lonstorf, who managed the property himself around 1260), but instead let Linz families look after it. On the one hand, this has to do with their duties as ministerials of the Passau bishops, but also with the fact that in 1272 they were able to inherit the much larger Ipf - Zierberg inheritance and then relocate to Zierberg.
In 1327 a Dietmar von Linz owned the farm. He was the son of a respected family in Linz, who were also called the Mautner after their office. At the time of the Lonstorf family, property was divided into an upper courtyard Kefer zu Lonstorf and the so-called Winkelmayrhof.
Kunigunde von Lonstorf and her son Otto von Ehrenfels (the family named Lonstorfer died out at the end of the 14th century) had taken over Lonstorf in 1370 and sold the castle to Jörg Enenkel von Ybbs and Albrechtsberg ( Jörg der Enickhl ) in 1397 . The Enenkel were a small noble family, primarily in the service of the Lords of Schaunberg . Jörg Enenkel († 1415) acquired considerable property through two marriages to Anna von Ezzlorn (Esslarn) and Barbara von Fläming (1391) (including the Albrechtsperg Festival ). In 1390 he was appointed Mautner of the Dukes of Austria to Linz; The judge's office was connected with it. This made him one of the most important personalities in Linz. He also received permission from Duke Albrecht to develop, mine and use all ores in the land above the Enns, which meant an extraordinary show of favor by the sovereign.
In 1405 half of Lonstorf's estate was sold to G (J) örg the Sambner († around 1409); the other half went in 1409 to the relative of the uncle Otto Maidwieser (both were related by marriage through the Esslar family). Jörg der Sambner is to be addressed as an important trader and haulier in Linz (the Sambnerhaus was located near the Linz Urfahrtore). After his death, his share in Lonstorf went to his Salzburg brother Ulrich. Since this property was too remote for Ulrich, he sold it to Wiltpolt the Freytlein and Laurenz des Freytlein von Frichensdorf's son. Wiltpolt Freytlein could not hold the property long; Around 1412, the wealthy Linz citizen Otto Maidwieser took it all for himself. He was a member of the Linz council, from 1410 to 1412 also the city judge of Linz and can often be found as a witness on documents. The two daughters Susanna (married to Hanns Sparsgut from Enns) and Dorothea (married to Hanns Kramer) followed in several farm estates. Otto Maidwieser was married twice; his first wife came from the house of Hans von Esslarn, the second wife, named Katharina, was the daughter of the Linz citizen Peter der Kramer. After her husband's death she married Hanns Alt († 1426) and so Lonstorf came to the Alts (actually Bernhard Prichenfried von Windpassing near Wels, surname of the Alt). Hanns Alt was a conductor for the Wallseer in Linz, and since 1424 also Mautner in Linz. With the death of Susanna, the Lonstorf share came at least administratively to Katharina Alt, who acted as guardian for her son Hanns Alt the Younger († probably 1454). He too became a respected councilor (from 1447) and city judge (1450). After Dorothea's marriage to Hanns Sparsgut (around 1444), the Lonstorfer Dominium fell to them. In 1450 Dorothea left her father's, maternal and sisterly inheritance to her husband († 1465/66), including Lonstorf. Members of the Linz bourgeois family of the Vintsgut lived in the tower or the castle complex.
In the feud of Christoph and Heinrich von Liechtenstein against Kaiser Friedrich III. from 1476 Bohemian and Moravian mercenaries from Ottensheim and Steyregg advanced against Linz. They occupied the tower of Lonstorf and used it for their further forays. The Linzers seized, however, on behalf of Friedrich III. with the help of Passau mercenaries from Ebelsberg of the tower. In 1477 the tower was built on the orders of Emperor Friedrich III. worn away and no longer built up. The heir of Hanns Sparsgut named Bernhardin († 1481, died without heirs) had to issue a lapel (a declaration of commitment) to the city of Linz stating that he no longer wanted to build an apartment or fortification on the site of this ancient fortification.
The surrounding possessions of the fortification were from Emperor Friedrich III. confiscated and given in 1487 to the imperial keeper of Sarmingstein , the Heinrich Prüschenk (Prueschenkh) Freiherr von Stellenberg . At that time, Lonstorf was already described as desolate. The successors of the Höfe zu Lonstorf (Winkelmayerhof, Keferhof) were again the Enenkels after many turmoil and partitions. In around 1519, the Lonstorf property passed to Heinrich Wankheimer von Ponholzen, who was married into this family. Since he died without children himself, he bequeathed his property to his master Hans, Lasla and Andreas von Prag on Windhag in the year of his death in 1537. At the beginning of the 17th century, these farms were acquired by Wolfgang Jörger and added to the Lustenfelden rule . The Winkelmayerhof belonged to Lustenfelden, the neighboring Kefergut belonged to the Ennsegg lordship and had been the main courtyard of the Lonstorf office since the 17th century.
Lonstorf today
The weir system was built in the middle of an important traffic route to the Steyeregger overpass to Panglmayr in Tafersheim. The tower stood on the right side of the Füchselbach near the Gasthaus Seitlufer. The name Lugwiese will presumably have referred to the area next to the tower view. In Linz, Lonstorferplatz (so named in 1914) and Lonstorferweg (running from Lonstorferplatz 8 approximately in a north-easterly direction to Ing.-Stern-Strasse, so named in 1928) remind us of the fortification and the Lonstorfer family ).
literature
- 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 .
- Siegfried Haider : History of Upper Austria . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54081-5 .
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Hanns Kreczi : Linz, city on the Danube. Book publisher of the Democratic Printing and Publishing Society, Linz o. J., p. 149 (Lonstorf).
- Franz Wilflingseder : The former Lonstorf Castle near Linz and its owners. In: City of Linz, Municipal Collections (ed.): Special publications on the history of the city of Linz. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1955, 194 pages.
Individual evidence
- ^ History of Ansfelden. The mansions. Zierberg Castle on heimat.eu.
- ↑ a b Wilflingseder 1955, p. 71.
- ↑ Linz street names. Lonstorferplatz on stadtgeschichte.linz.at, accessed on July 1, 2019.
- ↑ Linz street names. Lonstorferweg on stadtgeschichte.linz.at, accessed on July 1, 2019.