Roy Castle

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Roy Castle
Alternative name (s): Roburg , Row , Raw , Rou , Rowo
Creation time : first mentioned in 1270
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Donnerskirchen

Castle Roy is an Outbound from Moravian founded nobles lowland castle in the years from about 1270 to 1409 near Donnerskirchen in Burgenland in Austria .
The castle has also been referred to as Roburg , Row , Raw , Rou , Rowo Castle throughout history. According to Ratz, the castle site was west of Donnerskirchen on the northern edge of the "suction gardens" around the so-called "Ramsaulacke".

history

The history of Roy Castle is only partially known, and in some cases the sources contain contradicting information that has not yet been clarified.

The Lords of Gatal immigrated from Moravia to Hungary before 1251 at the time of the Hungarian King Béla IV . In addition to Roy, members of this family also owned Oggau , Donnerskirchen and Szek (also known as Pirichendorf), a village that was about north of today's Schützen am Gebirge . The lordship of Roy comprised eight villages in Ödenburg County . The dominion was between the Leithagebirge and the Neusiedler See .

The castle was first mentioned in 1270. The castle later came into the possession of the von Güns (noble family von Heder). In 1271 Ottokar II Přemysl and Stephan V. concluded a peace treaty. This peace treaty also included the obligation of Ottokar II Přemysl to return Roy Castle to the Hungarian king. The siege of the castle by the Austrian Duke Albrecht I is mentioned in a document from 1293 . A certain Herbord received a reward for his brave behavior in the course of this siege. In 1375, Judge Trochmann von Oslip destroyed Roy's possessions, for which he was summoned to the Bratislava Cathedral Chapter .

In 1390 King Sigismund ordered the incorporation of Roy Castle from the possession of Heslin, Michael, Stefan and Ladislaus von Roy because of their infidelity into the possession of the Hungarian noblewoman Kanizsay . This contradicts the letters of gift from the years 1401 and 1409 to the Kanizsay for the castle, which were previously in Austrian possession. In 1409 the castle was demolished. Presumably the castle was already dilapidated and, according to Josef Stessel (Századok, 1897) , became superfluous with the new construction of Neu-Scharfeneck Castle in Mannersdorf .

literature

  • Wolfgang Meyer: The castle construction at the time of the Lords of (Güssing) - Güns in today's Burgenland. In: The Güssinger. Results of the symposia as part of the “Schlaininger Talks” 1986/1987. Ed. Burgenland State Museum Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt 1989, p. 259 f.
  • Karl Semmelweis: The mystery of the Roy Castle. In: Burgenland homeland sheets . Issue 1/1947, published by the Landesarchiv and Landesmuseum Burgenland, Eisenstadt 1947, p. 62 ff, PDF on ZOBODAT