Trattenegg Castle

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Trattenegg Castle
Trattenegg Castle around 1670 (engraving by GMVischer)

Trattenegg Castle around 1670 (engraving by GMVischer)

Creation time : 1316

(first documentary mention)

Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Trattenegg, Gde. Schlüßlberg
Geographical location 48 ° 13 '21 "  N , 13 ° 50' 49"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '21 "  N , 13 ° 50' 49"  E
Trattenegg Castle (Upper Austria)
Trattenegg Castle

The castle Trattenegg is an Outbound hilltop castle in the Upper Austrian municipality of Schlüßlberg . The dismantled facility was located on a hill above the mouth of the Gallsbach in the Trattnach in the village of Trattenegg, which belongs to the municipality of Schlüßlberg.

history

The Veste Trattenegg appears for the first time in 1316 and is owned by Elisabeth Schenkin von Dobra that year. 1351 Konrad der Schreiber, citizen of Wels and Eberhard V. von Walsee are named at the same time . Just like Gallspach and Tollet , Trattenegg is an important base of the sovereign in the Schaunberger Ländchen in the fight against the Lords of Schaunberg . The following appear as carers in the 14th and 15th centuries: 1358 Ortolph I. Geumann ( Geymann ), 1362 Lienhard der Ecker, 1367 Hylprandt von Albrechtsham (he is a Schaffer in Pernstein in 1376 and a district judge in Schlierbach in 1382 ), Ulrich the follower in 1377, 1384 Nicklas der Jud (he was a judge in the Wachau in 1360 ), Simon Oberhaimer in 1390 , Wolf Fischer and Hans Paumgartinger in 1439, Hans Innerseer in 1454 and Ortolph II Geymann before 1460. From 1463 onwards, the Geymann von Gallspach family owned half of the fortress , and they acquired the second half from Ulrich Reischauer in 1491, and so became the sole property of Trattenegg. In 1502 the value of the income from the rulership is put at 350 Rhenish guilders . In 1541 Hans Heinrich Geymann combined Trattenegg with the newly acquired, now also abandoned seat of Winzertal.

A castle chapel in the palace is first mentioned in 1544 (consecration day of the birth of the Virgin Mary ). The circular wall was reinforced with four round corner towers, the entrance was covered by a square tower. In 1626 and 1642 the castle partially burned down. Trattenegg remained in sole possession of the last Protestant Geymann family until 1643. In Hans Christoph Geymann († 1600) was succeeded by his son, Hans Georg († 1617) and his son Hans Wilhelm Geymann († 1658). Then there was a quick change of ownership. From Hans Wilhelm Geymann, the castle and its lordship fell to Seifried Hager von Allensteig (1643). Adam Max von Trauttmannsdorff (1668), Johann Achaz von Salburg (1671), Franz Leopold von Salm (1673) and Ferdinand Carl von Eyselsberg (1685) followed in the line of owners. From the latter's heir, Georg Christian von Kautten, Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck acquired the Trattenegg estate in 1700 and united it with Schlüßlberg , and with Gallspach in 1713 when he created a Fideikommiss out of the three lords . The mansion was habitable until around 1790. The last church services in the castle chapel are recorded around 1800. From two engravings from the 17th and 18th centuries it can be seen that the complex consisted of a three-storey hall and a circular wall with four round towers. Access via a drawbridge was protected by a square gate tower .

At the beginning of the 19th century Trattenegg is described as follows:

Trattenegg. A mountain castle and village with 19 houses at the origin of the Trattnach river between Neumarkt and Grieskirchen, parish to the latter place in the Parz commissariat in the Hausruckviertel. [...] The rulership belongs to the Counts of Hohenek and is around 26,350  fl purchase value, 1234 fl 41 kr annual income, 84 subservient houses and 36,675 fl 45 kr rustic = purchase prizes in the scenic deposit. The castle is very old, dilapidated and uninhabited, built in the old way, with circular walls, rounds and a square tower that blocks the entrance, the walls are extremely thick, all around you can still see many dilapidated entrenchments and ditches, on both sides are groves and mountains; - The stay in the walls is desolate and gruesome, where only the worm and the blind worm free themselves of their existence; The fir trees cast long, trembling shadows into the groups in order to increase the hideous; but one does not like to leave the valley where the Trattnach flows, because here one enjoys the most beautiful view.

The remains of the wall were preserved for a few decades before the ruins were abandoned for demolition in 1860. Since then, no building remains have been visible above ground. The former Meierhof and the building of the former castle tavern, which has not been in operation for years, have been preserved in the village of Unternberg at the foot of the castle hill.

Sources and literature

Original sources:

  • Upper Austria Landesarchiv Linz: Schlüßlberger Archiv , 1463 October 14.
  • Upper Austrian regional archive: Landscape archive . Files slipcase 225, 1502 January 29.
  • Upper Austrian regional archive: Geumannurkunde 18, 1502 May 14.
  • Joseph Chmel (arr.): Regesta chronologico-diplomatica Friderici III. Romanorum Imperatoris (Regis IV.). Vienna 1838–1840, n. 4060

Historical descriptions:

  • Ignaz Gielge: Topographical-historical description of all cities, markets, castles, parishes and other strange places in Austria above the Enns. In alphabetical order from their origin as elevated as possible to the Vienna Peace Treaty in 1809. Third part from R to Z. Wels 1815, p. OA
  • Benedikt Pillwein (Ed.): History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg . With a register, which is also the topographical and genealogical lexicon and the district map. Geographical-historical-statistical detail according to district commissariats. 1st edition. Third part: the Hausruckkreis . Joh. Christ. Quandt, Linz 1830, District Commissioner Parz: Schlüßlberg and Tratteneck , p. 325 f ( Google eBook ). 2nd edition 1843 ( Google Book )
  • Burgenkunde.at , directory of all Vischer engravings for Upper Austria

In compendia:

  • Franz Sekker: Castles and palaces, towns and monasteries of Upper Austria . Linz 1925, p. OA
  • Alois Zauner : Vöcklabruck and the Attergau. I. Town and manorial rule in Upper Austria until 1620. In: Research on the history of Upper Austria. Volume 12, Linz 1971, 901 pages, p. OA
  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Linz 1976 (3rd edition), p. OA
  • Josef Zeiger: From Hausruck to the Danube, from the Sallet to the Innbach. Steyr 1986, p. OA

Secondary literature: