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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1197 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Krems in Carinthia -Kremsbrücke | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 58 '48.6 " N , 13 ° 37' 13.7" E | |
| Height: | 1050 m above sea level A. | |
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Rauchenkatsch is an Outbound rock castle in Carinthia Katschtal . For a long time it served the Archdiocese of Salzburg to secure the trade route over the Katschberg and was at times the seat of a Salzburg regional court, but gradually lost its importance in the late Middle Ages and fell into disrepair. The ruins of the castle finally fell victim to road construction in the 1960s.
location
The castle was located at about 1050 m above sea level in what is now the municipality of Krems in Carinthia . A little north of the village of Kremsbrücke , where the gorge-like valley of the Lieser flows north into the wider Katschtal, the Rauchenkatsch castle was built on a steep rock next to the Lieser.
history
When exactly the castle was built is not known. According to a legend, a fort or a watchtower already existed there at the time of the Romans, but there is no evidence for this.
The area around the castle came to the Freising diocese in 1007 through a donation from Heinrich II . For the Freising, who at that time had extensive possessions in Carinthia, the property on the upper Lieser was too remote, so that they ceded it to the Archdiocese of Salzburg in the course of an exchange .
The oldest documented mention of the castle as castrum chaetze comes from a document from 1197 in which an exchange of goods between Archbishop Adalbert and the Millstatt Benedictine monastery was sealed, one of the goods in question was not far from the castle. On May 4th, 1201, the castle was destroyed by a strong earthquake that caused devastating damage down to the Drautal valley. However, it was apparently soon rebuilt and in a document from 1241 it is first mentioned as Rouhenkaze , that is to say, smoking katsch ; the attribute rough is to be interpreted in the sense of "firm, invincible".
Rauchenkatsch was administered by ministerials , i.e. aristocratic followers of the Archdiocese of Salzburg. The fortress wall of the castle pulled down to the street and reached from the other side on a steep slope into the forest, so that the gentlemen of Rauchenkatsch could block the street at any time.
As can be seen from a document from 1487, Rauchenkatsch owned a castle keep at that time and had lower jurisdiction . The district court in Gmünd was responsible for blood jurisdiction .
In 1605 Salzburg Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau sold Rauchenkatsch Castle to his brother Hans Rudolf von Raitenau , who only came into the possession of the city of Gmünd in 1601. In 1639 the fortress changed hands again with the new Gmünd city lord Christoph Lodron . Even if the importance of the castles had steadily decreased since the late Middle Ages, Rauchenkatsch still had its own castle judge in 1811.
The remains of the Rauchenkatsch ruin were destroyed in 1967 when the federal highway 99 was relocated after a landslide.
The coat of arms of the Rennweg am Katschberg community commemorates the gentlemen von Katsch, some of whom are attested as carers and judges for smokers' gossip .
literature
- Matthias Maierbrugger : Rauchenkatsch Castle In: From Glockner to Lavant . European publishing house, Vienna 1968, pp. 57–63
swell
- ^ Katschberg 1201. In: ZAMG: Geophysics → Historical earthquakes in Austria .
Web links
- Entry on Rauchenkatsch in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )