Lueg Castle (Gratkorn)
| Lueg | ||
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| Creation time : | in the 12th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Service men | |
| Place: | Burr grain | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 8 '20.9 " N , 15 ° 19' 57.1" E | |
| Height: | 470 m above sea level A. | |
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The Castle Lueg is just more than Burgstall preserved hilltop castle on the mountain of the Austrian market town Gratkorn in Styria . The history of the castle goes back to the 12th century when it was built to guard the Murtal. It was probably abandoned at the end of the 14th century and then demolished.
Location
The castle was located on the flat top of the local mountain northwest of the main town of Gratkorn. This is a fall-back crest of a ridge with steep slopes that stretches from the Ferstlhöhe to the southwest. In the northeast, the local mountain is connected to the hinterland by a flat saddle, while it drops steeply on the other sides and rocky slopes occur in the west, towards the central Mur valley . Due to its favorable location, one could block the trade and traffic route through the Murtal from it.
About 8 kilometers northeast of the Semriach local mountain is the almost equally named ruin of Luegg Castle .
history
When exactly the castle was built is not known, but it is likely in the 12th century when the main traffic route between Graz and Frohnleiten was relocated to the eastern bank of the Mur. In 1131, a Rudiger von Velgau which is not localized exactly at the, but probably located on the southern slope of Gratkorn local mountain castle Velgau sat and was probably identical, at least related to the aforementioned 1159 Rüdiger von Lueg or. In the castle sat the distinguished family of the Lueger and to whom the festival belonged as free property . The last of the Luegians to be named on December 12, 1202 and July 16, 1214 was Otto de Luoge and Otto de Luog, from whom the castle passed to the Pfannberger family, related to him or related by marriage . The Pfannbergers used lower knight families as burgraves on Lueg, who also called themselves von Lug or von Lueg after the residence. The prince's archives from the year 1265 names a foramen , with which both the cave known today as the gypsy hole at the foot of the local mountain and probably also the castle complex could have been described. In 1271, Lueg was described as lapidem, qui foramen dicitur , i.e. as the stone called the cave .
Presumably through marriage, the castle came to the Lords of Wildon in 1270 , but a temporary handover also seems possible, since the Counts of Pfannberg appear again as owners of Lueg around 1290. A document from February 16, 1277 mentions a munitionem dictam Luoge and in another document from March 27, 1287 the castle is called castrum dictum Luege . A document from the Rein monastery in 1285 names a Pillung by Lueg who did business with the monastery. The Pfannbergers appointed Heugel von Lueg in 1293, Pillunch, Giselher and Hugo von Lueg in 1297 and Konrad von Lueg as burgrave in 1308. During this time, the castle was once again in the possession of Hartnid von Wildon for a short time, as Hugo von Lueg is mentioned as a loyal servant of the Wildoners. After Hugo's death, parts of the property came to his brother-in-law Seifried von Waldstein and his cousins Pillunch and Giselher von Lueg. Sophie, the widow of the elder Hugo von Lueg, sold in 1296 at a Friesach located Hube to the Rein and Pillunch of Lueg abandoned in favor of the pen in 1298 on goods in Wörth . Konrad von Lueg presented the monastery with goods in Upper Styria . This Lueger family was related to the Saurau and Geiselher von Lueg carried a coat of arms and seal similar to this one. Said Geiselher 1322 and Otto von Lueg be cited as close relatives of the Velgauer, and when Ottlef and Gerunch of Lueg in 1323 the bishop of the pin Seckau a Lehnsrevers exhibited these other seals used as the aforementioned Konrad. The Lueger appeared as border witnesses at a border determination in 1323, which was supposed to settle a dispute between Gösting and Rein Abbey. According to a message from 1331, Elisabeth von Aragón , wife of King Frederick the Fair and his brother Duke Otto the Merry , stayed overnight on one of their journeys through the Mur Valley at the Lueg Fortress. The Lueger family is mentioned several times in the 14th century, but did not manage to be of greater importance. In 1342 and 1343 Gerung von Lueg sold several goods from Lueg to the Rein monastery, and Matza, Otto von Lueg's widow, left several properties below the castle to the monastery in 1362. Since the Lueger had accumulated high debts, they had to sell more goods and married into wealthy middle-class families. So married about a year in 1351 Katrey of Lueg a Brucker citizens and Ann, widow of Leutl's dacz the Lueg and her son Christian sold 1,380 one Hube at Lueg to the relatives the Hertl of Teufenbach .
The castle was probably abandoned at the end of the 14th century. For the year 1422, however, there is still a farm in Sankt Stefan am Gratkorn , which Lueg served, but it is unlikely that the complex was still inhabited at that time. The Lueger family also partly died out in the 14th century or became citizens or farmers in Graz . The castle was known throughout the 15th century as the name for the area near the Lueg , and the Reiner Urbar from 1470 also summarized the possessions acquired through donations by the Lueger and Velgauer as a separate office near the Lueg . The Gratkorner local mountain was first equated with Lueg in the Gratweiner Urbar in 1486 , but the actual castle was probably already derelict at this time and served the farmers in the vicinity as a quarry. The castle name has in the Vulgonamen Hofbacher and Luegschuster received.
description
Soil features ascertained in the archaeological survey suggest a tower castle , which was secured in the east by a section ditch.
On the top of the Hausberg you can still find sparse remains of the walls of the former castle. Remains of the neck ditch and traces of the defensive wall , which enclosed a narrow castle courtyard, can still be found. On the forest floor you can see the foundations of the quadrangular donjon recognize as well as residential buildings.
legend
A local legend says that the castle Lueg with on the other side of the Mur on the eastern slope of the Gsollerkogels situated Helfenstein Castle in Gratwein as well as with the in Semriach situated castle Luegg was connected by an underground passage.
literature
- Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Graz 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 159-160 .
- Ingo Mirsch: Lueg Castle on Gratkorner's local mountain . In: Marktgemeinde Gratkorn (Hrsg.): The history of the Marktgemeinde Gratkorn . Gratkorn 1997, p. 65-67 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Graz 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 159 .
- ↑ a b c Ingo Mirsch: The Lueg Castle on the Gratkorner local mountain . In: Marktgemeinde Gratkorn (Hrsg.): The history of the Marktgemeinde Gratkorn . Gratkorn 1997, p. 65 .
- ↑ a b Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Graz 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 160 .
- ↑ Ingo Mirsch: The Lueg Castle on the Gratkorner local mountain . In: Marktgemeinde Gratkorn (Hrsg.): The history of the Marktgemeinde Gratkorn . Gratkorn 1997, p. 66 .
- ↑ a b c Ingo Mirsch: The Lueg Castle on the Gratkorner local mountain . In: Marktgemeinde Gratkorn (Hrsg.): The history of the Marktgemeinde Gratkorn . Gratkorn 1997, p. 67 .