Neuaist Castle
The castle Neuaist in the municipality Pregarten in the district of Freistadt of Upper Austria was in the 11th century belonged to the Lords of Aist . The name of the family and the remaining castle stables is derived from the Feldaist river .
history
Neuaist Castle was the seat of the Lords of Aist , who acquired properties here in the 11th century.
Lords of Aist
The Lords of Aist had extensive estates west of the “ Regensburger Luß” in the lower Mühlviertel , but not in the sense of a closed territory, which lay between Feldaist and Kleiner Gusen and reached from Mauthausen to Neumarkt im Mühlkreis . These included the Altaist and Neuaist castles . In Aistersheim in the Innviertel , the moated castle Aistersheim , built in 1136, is associated with the Lords of Aist. The castle there is attributed for the first time in 1159 to Dietmar von Aistersheim, a ministerial of the Styrian Otakare . This rule remained in the possession of the Lords of Aistersheim until 1426, when Heinrich von Aistersheim, the last of his tribe, died and in 1464 Hanns von Hohenfeld bought this property. Other possessions of the Aister were Altenhaus Castle (today in the municipality of Wartberg ob der Aist ), Arnberg Castle and the complex in Burgholz near Obenberg (both in Ried in der Riedmark ), possibly also Möstling Castle .
The mentions of followers of the Aister in the lower Mühlviertel are not very numerous. Only in the second half of the 12th century are some of them known from the immediate area of the Aist seats. Based on documentary references, Dietmar von Gaisbach, Wenzel von Wartberg, Rudolf and Rambertus von Aist, Hertwig and Gebhard von Schiesenberg as well as Karolus and Johannes von Aist can be counted among them. The Pernauers are likely to have been feudal people of the Aister and possibly administered Möstling Castle.
The Lords of Aist are not mentioned in a document until the 12th century, although the archaeological findings there point to the 11th century. 1125 to 1147 a Perthe de Agasta is mentioned, 1171 a de Agist Dietm (ar) . Ditmarus de Agasta , documented from 1139 onwards, should not be identical with the poet and minstrel Dietmar von Aist (around 1140 until after 1171 and buried in Aldersbach monastery). The childless Aister Dietrich gave goods to the Aldersbach monastery, which was chosen as his final resting place, as well as to the Baumgartenberg monasteries in his Mühlviertel region and in 1171 to the Garsten monastery , of which he was bailiff . With the consent of his sister Sophie, her son Adalbert and her second husband, Dietrich handed over the property in Hirtina (Zicking) to the Aldersbach monastery. His family objected to the transfer of the Hertgersdorf estate (Gerersdof near Ried in der Riedmark). Therefore Dietrich passed the protection of this property into the hands of his relatives Werner von Griesbach and the Free Friedrich von Haunsberg. However, a Rehewinus later made claims to this property. This Rehewinus was a burgrave in Altaist and had previously managed this estate. Only through an arbitration ruling by Regensburg Cathedral Bailiff Otto III. von Lengenbach ordered Rehewinus to resign and he was pacified with a sum of money of 20 talents. After Dietrich's death, the sovereign, Duke Heinrich II. Jasomirgott, took possession of the Garsten possessions in the Riedmark.
Another story
Through Sophia von Aist, daughter of the liberal Gottfried von Aist and sister of Dietrich von Aist, the Neuaist and Altaist castles and their Dominical property came to Adelram I von Perg (1090, † 1148). After the death of Adelram I in the battle for Akkon , Sophia married Engelbert von Schönheringen and Blankenburg for the second time , and the property passed to her new husband and children. Sophia von Blankenburg died in 1175 and was buried in Wilhering Monastery. In 1185 her son Adalbert von Perg died, in 1192 the last Ulrich II from Blankenburg died during the 3rd crusade in the Holy Land . In a land register from 1230 by Duke Leopold VI. are also called the goods of the Lord of Aist, that is, they came into the possession of the Babenbergs . The castles Altaist and Neuaist are no longer mentioned here, so they should have become ruins even then.
Neuaist today
The substructure of a castle lies on a fall-back hill surrounded by the Feldaist , the field name is Neuaist . The Burgstall, originally secured by two section trenches, is located on the orographically left bank of the Feldaist, opposite the Kriehmühle in the municipality of Pregarten. Alfred Höllhuber's explorations brought about ceramic finds from the 11th century (time horizon approx. 1000–1250 with a focus on the 2nd half of the 12th century); therefore it is reasonable to assume that Neuaist is older than Altaist Castle. Neolithic found objects also came to light on the castle rock and on the slope . On the boulders in the river there are cavities for a wooden bridge. The important complex is not a listed building.
literature
- Ludwig Benedict (= Ludwig Benesch): Disappeared castles of the Aist area. Entertainment supplement of the Linzer Tages-Post , 1905, No. 34.
- Leopold Josef Mayböck : Dietmar von der Aist. Contribution to the settlement history of the Lower Mühlviertel. Unpublished manuscript, Schwertberg 2006.
- Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz 2013.
Web links
- Klaus Birngruber, Alice Kaltenberger, Thomas Kühtreiber , Christina Schmid: Nobility, castle and lordship in the Lower Mühlviertel. An interdisciplinary attempt on the medieval Aldels, castles and border concepts. In: Klaus Birngruber, Christina Schmid (eds.): Nobility, castle and rule on the "border": Austria and Bohemia. Contributions to the interdisciplinary and cross-border conference in Freistadt, Upper Austria, from May 26th to 28th, 2011 (= studies on the cultural history of Upper Austria. 34). Linz 2012 ( PDF on academia.edu).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietmar von Aist. In: austria-forum.org.
- ↑ Christian K. Steingruber , 2013, p. 88.
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 3.8 ″ N , 14 ° 31 ′ 49.1 ″ E