Starhemberg castle ruins
| Starhemberg castle ruins | ||
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 Inner wall of the residential wing at the transition from the north to the east |
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| Alternative name (s): | Starkenberg | |
| Creation time : | 1140 to 1145 | |
| Castle type : | Hill castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Market Piesting -Dreistetten | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 51 '59.8 " N , 16 ° 5' 56.9" E | |
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The Starhemberg castle ruins are located in the Piestingtal in Lower Austria on a hill not far from Dreistetten .
location
The large castle ruins extend on the hilltop from southwest to northeast.
history
The name Starhemberg is derived from the original name 'starker Berg' or 'Starkenberg'. There is no connection with the Upper Austrian noble family Starhemberg . Margrave Otakar III is considered to be the builder . von Styria, who built a small castle on this site between 1140 and 1145 . The Piesting was at that time the border between Styria and the Ostmark . In 1192 Styria and with it the castle fell to the Babenbergs . The last Duke of the Babenbergs, Frederick the Warrior , had the castle expanded and fortified. In the 13th century Starhemberg was one of the most important castles in Lower Austria.
In times of war, the archive and the family treasure were saved here and guarded by the Teutonic Knight Order . After the Battle of Dürnkrut in 1278, the Habsburgs received the castle. In 1482 the castle was taken by Matthias Corvinus .
During the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, the castle offered the surrounding population protection from the troops of the Ottoman army .
In order to avoid the new roof tax , the Counts of Heussenstein had doors and window frames broken out around 1800 and the roofs covered. This started the ruin of the castle. A large part of the hall collapsed around 1870. Until the middle of the 20th century, the ruins were used by the population for the extraction of building materials.
In the spring of 1945 there was a unit of the Waffen SS in the ruins , which maintained an observation post in the tower above the chapel. Russian artillery fire caused severe damage to the walls.
In the second half of the 20th century, a local castle association ("Friends of Starhemberg Castle") tried to restore the ruins. It has been closed to visitors for security reasons since 2007.
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt - Topographic monument inventory (ed.): Dehio Handbook : Lower Austria south of the Danube, Part 1 and Part 2 A to L M to Z . Berger Verlag , Horn / Vienna 2003 ISBN 3-85028-365-8
- Barbara Schedl (Ed.): Starkenberch urbs. A virtual model of Starhemberg Castle in Lower Austria . CD-Rom for Windows and Mac including booklet, Austria. Kunst- und Kulturverlag, 2000 ISBN 3-85437-155-1
- Ilse Schöndorfer: Stones and Legends - Castle ruins in Lower Austria . Verlag Np Buchverlag, 1999 ISBN 3-85326-114-0
- René Riegler: Castles, palaces and ruins in the district of Wr. Neustadt . Self-published, Ternitz 1997, OBV .
- Barbara Schedl: Studies at the Starhemberg castle ruins in Lower Austria . Thesis. Art History Institute of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1990, OBV .
- Ernst Katzer, Franz Stundner: Piesting through the ages. 450 years of market arms, represented on the economic and parish history of the market and the Piestingtal . Wiener Neustädter Verlagsgesellschaft, Markt Piesting 1979, OBV .
- G. Seebach: Starhemberg - Residence of the last Babenberger , in: Burgen und Schlösser 11 (1975), p. 31 ff.
- Castles and palaces in Lower Austria . Volume 1.2: Felix Halmer: Castles and palaces between Baden, Gutenstein, Wr. Neustadt . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1968, OBV .
- Felix Halmer: Lower Austria's castles . 1956
- Starhemberg Castle in Austria above the Enns . In: Franz Sartori : The castle forts and knight castles of the Austrian monarchy. In addition to the topographical and picturesque description of their surroundings, the family history of their former and current owners, the way of life and characteristics of knighthood and the stories and legends of Austrian prehistoric times . Second, completely revised and enlarged edition. Volume 7: The ruins of the Frauenburg in Styria . Lechner, Vienna 1839, pp. 52–55. - online .
Picture gallery
North-eastern outer wall of the residential wing with bullet holes from the Soviet artillery.
The kitchen chimney with a tufa-lime pyramid . Behind the north-western curtain wall (outer wall of the northern residential wing).
Octagonal column stump in the west of the northern residential wing.
Cross vault, west side in the northern residential wing.
Web links
- Entry over the Starhemberg castle ruins on Burgen-Austria
- Starhemberg castle ruins
- The building stones of the Starhemberg castle ruins