Sachsendorf Castle
| Sachsendorf Castle | ||
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 Sachsendorf Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Sachsendorf ruins | |
| Creation time : | Mid 11th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Ministerial nobility | |
| Construction: | Cuboid; Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Sachsendorf , Burgschleinitz-Kühnring | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 35 '15 " N , 15 ° 45' 42.1" E | |
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The castle Sachsendorf was a lowland castle in the market town of Burg-Kühnring . The castle was built in the middle of the 11th century as a permanent house on the back of the Manhartsberg and in the 13th century was probably the seat of the minstrel Ulrich von Sachsendorf .
As the first documented owner, the Kuenringer from the time around 1180/1185 Alhart de Sassendorf is mentioned in a document . Later owners were among others Ulrich von Sachsendorf (mentioned 1230 and 1249), Ulrich der Zink von Sachsendorf (1340), Niklas Pillung from St. Gilgenberg (1384) and Konrad von Kreig (1430). In 1475 Wilhelm von Missingdorf transferred Sachsendorf to the Fellabrunners in Losensteinleiten after several changes of ownership. Towards the end of the 1570s, the castle was destroyed by Hungarian troops and never rebuilt.
The area of the castle is surrounded by an earth wall and covers an area of around 3,600 m². Individual wood and ceramic finds prove that in the middle of the 10th century there were already unfortified wooden huts at this swampy place, which were supplemented by a stone tower with 1.5 meter thick walls towards the end of the century. The tower was torn down again in the 11th century, but the area was still protected by wooden palisades afterwards . In the middle of the 13th century work began on building a fortified castle, which was surrounded by a rectangular curtain wall.
Archaeological excavations from 1987 onwards uncovered the remains of a Romanesque chapel with a retracted semicircular apse from around 1180/90. Its walls have been preserved up to a height of about 1.5 meters and some of them still have remains of the original plaster. To the west of it rise the remains of a former residential tower with a wall thickness of about three meters.
Part of the former wooden palisades was reconstructed in the 20th century. Information boards provide information about the building history.
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Berger, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , p. 1010.
Web links
- Entry about Burg Sachsendorf on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Burg Sachsendorf to Burgen-Austria
- Sachsendorf castle ruins in the Austria Forum
- Reconstruction of the castle