Stein Castle (Reichersberg)

Stein Castle
	Site plan of Stein Castle according to Johann Ev. Lamprecht
Creation time :	1085 (first documented mention)
Castle type :	Höhenburg, bank edge castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, abandoned at the end of the 12th century
Place:	Reichersberg
Geographical location	48 ° 20 '48.5 " N , 13 ° 22' 13.4" E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '48.5 " N , 13 ° 22' 13.4" E

The once mighty Stein Castle is an abandoned hilltop castle (bank edge castle ) on the Minaberg, about two kilometers downriver from Reichersberg in Upper Austria .

history

The castle was first mentioned in 1085 in a document from Reichersberg Abbey . Albuin I († around 1090), a nephew of Wernher von Reichersberg, the founder of Stift Reichersberg from the Askuiner family , is named as its builder . In December 1153 it was conquered and destroyed by Duke Heinrich II of Babenberg as the Bavarian duke and supreme peace keeper. The reason is probably that the von Stein (Albuin II. And Erchenbert, son or grandson of Albuin I) claimed property as an inheritance that Wernher had donated to his Reichersberg Foundation, and tried to enforce these claims by feuding the monastery .

Stein Castle after the Brevis cronica cenobii Reicherspergensis

Heinrich von Stein-Baumgarten

After the reconstruction, the castle was owned by Heinrich von Baumgarten, son of Erchenbert von Stein. The fact that Reichersberg was in the area of influence of the Diocese of Passau was problematic because of its founder Wernher von Reichersberg, who was a brother-in-law of the Archbishop of Salzburg Gebhard von Helfenstein , but was in close contact with the Hochstift Salzburg and was in charge of protection for its foundation and had asked direct subordination to the Salzburg Vogt. In 1153, Reichersberg's property was expanded to include the nearby Münsteuer estate. This fiefdom was also claimed by Heinrich von Stein-Baumgarten. In the investiture dispute , the Reichersberg provost Gerhoch, like the Salzburg archbishop Konrad II, stood on the side of Pope Alexander III. and not on the side of the antipope Paschal III, elected by the imperial side . what the Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossa could not please. The emperor therefore imposed an imperial ban on Salzburg and Reichersberg in 1167. Thereupon Heinrich von Stein-Baumgarten plundered the disputed fiefdom Münsteuer twice in 1166 and burned down the Reichersberg monastery in 1167. Heinrich the Lion ended the long dispute between Heinrich von Stein-Baumgarten and the Reichersberg monastery on a court day in Enns in 1176.

At the end of the 12th century Stein Castle was destroyed and not rebuilt afterwards.

Tribe list of the nobles von Stein (Innviertel)

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Albwin I von Stein, around 1105, † May 24, 1111
1. Albwin II von Stein, around 1120/1146; ∞ Schwanhild around 1140
  1. Arnulf, around 1140, monk at Reichersberg
  2. Erkenbert von Stein, 1136/53, 1155–1157, Mönch zu Reichersberg , † 1166; ∞ Kunigunde around 1143 / 1155–1157, widow of Heinrich I von Baumgarten
    1. Daughter, nun around 1150 at Reichersberg Abbey
    2. Son, 1156–1157, monk at Reichersberg Abbey
    3. Heinrich II von Stein, from 1168 von Baumgarten, 1153–1154 / 1197; ∞ Jutta 1197
      1. Ulrich, 1231 / 1248–1252, 1231 or 1233 Probst, 1245, 1248–1252 Canon of Reichersberg
      2. Dietrich, 1226 Canon of Passau
      3. Heinrich, 1206/20 Canon of Passau
      4. Berthold, 1224/32, 1224 Canon of Regensburg , 1226/36 Canon of Passau
      5. Henry III. von Baumgarten, 1203, † probably 1248 or 1252
        
        Dietrich IV. Von Baumgarten, 1252 nobilis vir , 1249 / around 1295, † November 5th?; ∞ Irmgardis von Haarbach 1284
        
        Albert, liber , 1286/1322, † August 1?
        
        Alram, 1307, † after February 27, 1327
        
        2 daughters, around 1295
        
        Albert, 1249, 1274/1278 Canon of Passau, † September 19 after 1277
        
        Heinrich IV., 1249 / around 1280, † April 17, 1286; ∞ Agnes, widowed in 1286
        
        Margaret, 1286
        
        Agnes, 1286
        
        Daughter, 1284/92; ∞ Alram von Rottau, Ritter 1284, † November 24, 1292
        
        Ulrich, 1264/66, Canon of Passau
        
        Berthold, 1277, Canon of Passau

In 1323 Alram von Baumgarten handed over his own Baumgarten house with its people and property to his uncles, Counts Alram and Albrecht von Hals

Pictures from Burgstall Stein today
Castle square of Stein Castle today
Inn view from Stein Castle
North-eastern moat of Stein Castle
South moat of Stein Castle

Stein Castle today

Part of the castle had crashed into the Inn in the 19th century. In the middle of the 19th century there was still a brick arch at the southern entrance as a remnant of the former entrance gate. The earth substructure of Stein Castle is still clearly visible. The flat castle area covers about half a hectare, although the area is somewhat difficult to recognize due to the trees. To the northwest there is a steep drop towards the Inn , to the northeast is a deep ditch to a brook that flows from the Minaberg to the Inn, in the south a ditch and two walls can be seen.

Lamprecht suspects, based on Roman coin finds (Emperor Domitian and others from Emperor Antoninus Pius ) that the Romans had already built a bank fort here.

literature

Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons , Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
Johann Ev. Lamprecht : Archaeological Forays a. Investigations of various surrounding areas in the lower Innviertel. Manuscript in Upper Austria. Landesmuseum, no location and no year (approx. 1880).
Detlev Schwennike (Ed.): European family tables. Family tables on the history of the European states. New series (Volume XVI). JA Stargardt, Berlin 1995, panel 46 A and B.
Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual by Norbert Grabherr . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz.
Wilhelm Mahler: Bundschuh No. 10, 2007, p. 11.

Web links

Commons : Burg Stein - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Siegfried Haider : History of Upper Austria . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54081-5 , p. 68 .
↑ Master list based on Detlev Schwennike (Ed.): Europäische Stammtafeln. Family tables on the history of the European states. New series (Volume XVI). JA Stargardt, Berlin 1995, panel 46 A and B.

[1] Siegfried Haider : History of Upper Austria . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54081-5 , p. 68 .

[2] Master list based on Detlev Schwennike (Ed.): Europäische Stammtafeln. Family tables on the history of the European states. New series (Volume XVI). JA Stargardt, Berlin 1995, panel 46 A and B.