Rechberg Castle
| Rechberg Castle | ||
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.JPG) Image of Rechberg Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Rehberg Castle | |
| Creation time : | first mentioned in 1176 | |
| Castle type : | Location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Ried im Traunkreis -Rührndorf | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 1 '32.7 " N , 14 ° 2' 26.8" E | |
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The defunct Rechberg Castle (sometimes also called Rehberg Castle ) was located on the orographic left bank of the Aiterbach in the Rührndorf district of the municipality of Ried im Traunkreis in the Kirchdorf an der Krems district of Upper Austria (Rührndorf No. 41).
history
Information about the Rechberger family resident here is rare. The castle was first documented in 1170 with Diemo von Rechberg . In 1176 Reginhard , Bishop of Würzburg, handed over two servants of the Rehberg Chunrat together with their descendants to the Kremsmünster Monastery . On January 4, 1189 in Salchenau, Duke Leopold of Austria renounced all claims in favor of the Kremsmünster monastery , which he was entitled to from the inheritance of those of Rebgau on some properties in Scharnstein; Hartwig von Pettenbach and a Heinricus de reperhe are also mentioned among the witnesses . In 1206 Heinrich von Rehberg , who is referred to as dapifer ( Truchsess ), testifies in a document about the division of the unfree descendants of Ministerial Hartwig von Pettenbach and his wife Adelheid von Hart between Bishop Heinrich von Würzburg and Abbot Konrad von Kremsmünster. Rechberg was a fiefdom of the bishops of Würzburg , originally Lambach property .
After the Rechbergers died out, Rechberg came to the Losensteiners , who in 1339 donated the nearby Gatterhof to the Garsten monastery as a chaplain in the church in Losenstein . Through this the property came to the brothers Weikhard and Pilgram von Polheim . The brothers "Wickhard and Pilgram, the Polheimer von Rechberg", who also owned the Steinhaus lordship on the lower reaches of the Aiterbach , sold their uncle Georg von Volkersdorf a property on the "Oede" and "one" in the Rollepache near Weißenberg "in the Puckinger parish.
Rechberg was once owned by the Meurl , with a Wernhart the Meurl living around 1363. This year, Wernhart der Meurl von Rechperg and his wife Kunigunde certify that they have a vineyard on the Lindberg near Krems from Abbot Johann von Lambach , of which they give 10 pfennigs to the nuns in Imbach and half a pound to the Lambacher Hof in Krems Are guilty of giving service. This is the last news about Rechberg for the time being. Possibly the stones of the castle were used to build the church of Ried im Traunkreis, which was built between 1476 and 1480. The Rechberg office came in 1600 through Helmhard VIII Jörger to the Scharnstein estate, which he had already bought in 1584. In the Scharnsteiner Urbar from 1584 to 1613 Rechberg is still mentioned as a ruin.
The coat of arms of the Meurl family (a jumping deer turning to the left) has entered the municipal coat of arms of Ried im Traunkreis.
Talk about fratricide
Around the castle there is a legend of two Rechberg brothers who, as the last descendants of this family, got into such bitter arguments over ownership of the castle that they persecuted each other to their death. One day they met behind the high altar of the parish church of Ried im Traunkreis and stabbed each other there with their swords. This murder aroused such disgust that not only did the castle remain uninhabited from then on and fell into disrepair, neglected by the next heirs, but also that the Bishop of Passau had the parish church closed as an expression of his disgust. And it remained closed “unsung,” as it is called in a later recording, for 30 years. However, this story is not attested in any pen book, so that the closure of the church may have had other reasons (especially dilapidation).
Rechberg Castle today
According to a drawing kept in the municipal office, Rechberg is said to have had a square tower, at the main entrance at the rear there was a pointed tower, the picture of Rehberg Castle is provided with the fictitious year 1392. The castle was protected by a wall (and a pond, not shown here). A model made from this drawing (to be seen in the Rührndorf farmhouse 22) approximates the building. The picture that is no longer in the original is likely to date from the second half of the 16th century at the earliest or be a fantasy product of the 19th century. The picture and thus also the model made according to the picture are likely to be arbitrary products, since the castle was sold at the end of the 14th century.
At the beginning of the 19th century numerous horseshoes and a buried well were found during excavations. Today there is a single-family house built in 1953 at the former castle site . Bricks and other items were allegedly found while the house was being built, but they were not kept. Rudiments of a moat surrounding the core work are still preserved, especially in the direction of the Aiterbach, the core work is completely built over by the house.
literature
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Leopold Josef Mayböck : Rechberg - Burgstall. Unpublished Manuscript, Schwertberg, March 24, 2011.
- Walter Neweklowsky: Founders of the castles - noble families from Upper Austria (I). In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 26, Issue 3/4, Linz 1972, p. 155 (entire article pp. 130–158, online (PDF; 2.9 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Neweklowsky, 1972: 155th
- ↑ Burgseite.com .