Peggau Castle

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Peggau Castle
Peggau Castle seen from the access road

Peggau Castle seen from the access road

Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : High free
Construction: mostly ashlar masonry
Place: Peggau
Geographical location 47 ° 12 '2 "  N , 15 ° 21' 39"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '2 "  N , 15 ° 21' 39"  E
Peggau Castle (Styria)
Peggau Castle
Castle ruin Peggau, lith. Kaiser around 1830

The Peggau castle ruins are located in the Austrian municipality of Peggau in Styria . It was probably built in the 12th century by the Free von Peggau as ancestral castle. Today it is owned by the Vorau Abbey and is leased.

location

The ruins of the Spornburg are located southeast of Peggau, at the exit of the Mitterbachgraben into the Mur valley on a rock that slopes steeply to the north, east and west. Access to the castle is via a saddle in the south.

history

The castle was probably built as an ancestral castle in the 12th century by the Free von Peggau  - after the acquisition of Pfannberg Castle near Frohnleiten as the Count of Pfannberg - and secured the road from Murtal to Tanneben . It was owned by the Counts of Pfannberg until 1362 and was destroyed in 1270 during the aristocratic conspiracy against King Ottokar Přemysl , but rebuilt in 1276.

In 1362 the Counts of Montfort zu Bregenz inherited the Pfannbergers and formed their Styrian line there, from 1373 they also sat on Peggau. After Pfannberg was sold, they moved here and called themselves Montfort-Bregenz-Peggau from 1515 , or more recently Montforth-Bregenz-Beckach . In 1574, the Tettnang main line of the Montforters in Vorarlberg went out , and the Peggauer Beckachers took over their inheritance, in 1596 they sold the castle and manor.
It has belonged to Vorau Abbey since 1652. When the Vorau administrators moved to the newly built office building on the main road in 1804, the castle was left to decay.

Restoration work was carried out in the 1990s. Today the ruin is inhabited by a tenant.

description

The castle was built as a spur castle. In the north and partly in the east, the complex was secured by a mighty curtain wall . A gate in the south represents the entrance to the castle. In the northeast corner of the complex is the four-storey, rectangular in cross-section dungeon . It consists of a rectangular structure with corner blocks . Access to the ground floor is on the north while the original access to the first floor is on the west. The stone cross vaults have been preserved on two floors .

Between the wall and the keep are the remains of a hexagonal shell tower , which was probably built in the 13th century. Its interior consists of four uneven sides and a semicircle. It was probably used as an alchemist's kitchen in the 15th or 16th century , which is still indicated today by the high, conical, six-sided chimney.

In the west, directly above the rock face, is the ruin of the residential wing. The castle chapel, first mentioned in 1404 and consecrated to St. Lucia , adjoins this in the north . During the restoration work in the 1990s, a pavement was exposed in the inner courtyard . For the duration of the lease, the current tenant was allowed to build a wooden frame construction in the northern part of the castle courtyard .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Werner Murgg: Castle ruins of Styria . Ed .: Federal Monuments Office (=  B . Band 2 ). Ferdinand Berger & Sons Ges.mbH, 2009, ISSN  1993-1263 , p. 48-49 .
  2. ↑ a b Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Graz . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , pp. 355 .
  3. ^ Karl Heinz Burmeister: Count Georg III. from Montfort-Bregenz-Pfannberg (approx. 1475/80 - 1544). A biographical sketch. In: Montfort. Quarterly journal for the past and present of Vorarlberg vol. 61, issue 1, 2009, ISBN 978-3-85430-344-2 , p. 7 (article p. 7–24; article, pdf ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , vorarlberg.at, p. 4) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at

Web links

Commons : Burg Peggau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files