Volkenstorf Castle

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Location of Volkenstorf Castle with Lourdes Grotto
Core plant of Volkenstorf Castle
Location of Volkersdorf Castle - presumed Vorwerk

The remains of the dialed Castle Volkenstorf (also Volckenstorf (f) or Volkersdorf written) are the district Tillysburg the municipality of St. Florian in District Linz-Land in Upper Austria .

history

The castle was founded by the people of Volkenstorf , who first appeared as Gleinkers in the 12th century , but then built a new castle in Volkenstorf around 1020 after their possessions there were donated to the Gleink monastery ; since 1151 they have been named after this castle ( de Volchenstorf ). Ortolf II. Von Volkensdorf has in a dispute with Otto III. Rohr murdered the sovereign scribe on the Enns, Witiko von Prčice and Blankenberg , in the dining room of St. Florian Monastery . As a result, both had to leave the country, their castles were razed to the ground in 1256 and their goods confiscated. The exiled Volkensdorfers joined the Habsburgs and after Rudolf von Habsburg's victory over Ottokar II Přemysl , they were rehabilitated in 1282, they received their goods and the regional court ( blood spell ) between Enns and Traun back again. In the same year Heinrich I von Volkensdorf received permission from Albrecht von Habsburg to rebuild the castle ( castrum meum volchensdorf, quod destructum fuerat, reedificem ).

It is possible that there were two such structures after the castle was rebuilt, as two Volkersdorf houses are mentioned in a document from 1422. Saybolt von Volkersdorf confesses that he owes his brother Wolfgang a certain amount of money; For this he uses the Oberhaws zu volkennstorff, which is run as a Passau fief, and the pawhof as well as a third at the nidern house zu volkennstorff with the hoff at the same place as security . However, the upper house and the lower house may have been close to one another. In 1558 the Meierhof and possibly also the castle were affected by a fire.

A line of this noble family remained in the possession of the castle until 1610. The widow of the last Volkerstorfer had to sell her property in 1629/1630 to Count Werner t'Serklaes von Tilly , a nephew of the general Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly , since her deceased husband was a Protestant . He had the former Volkenstorf Castle demolished and between 1633 and 1645 built the new Tillysburg Castle using the demolition material from the castle .

Volkerstorf Castle today

The location of the castle was uncertain for a long time. In the older literature it was localized as " Wasserburg " near the hamlet of Volkersdorf in the cadastral municipality of Volkersdorf (municipality of Enns) . However, this location has long been a problem. In 2011, Christian K. Steingruber discovered the actual location of Volkersdorf Castle on the plateau south of Tillysburg. The facility is located about 200 m south of the Tylliyburg. There are two truncated cones of about 30 and 50 m in diameter, which should have supported the main and Vorwerk; Another small, semicircular plateau can be seen a few meters to the south, which may also have belonged to it. A chapel from modern times, the so-called Lourdes Grotto (built in 1904), stands on the core of the building. In spring 2012, the site was measured by archaeologists from the Federal Monuments Office and the Upper Austrian State Museums and scanned using ground radar and geomagnetics . The assumption was confirmed that the rudiments are actually the location of the Volkenstorff Castle.

Courthouse south of Tillysburg
Location of Volkersdorf Castle with the Tillysburg courthouse

The property is owned by Georg Spiegelfeld-Schneeburg , owner of Tillysburg Castle and Schlüßlberg Castle , who benevolently supported the investigations under the direction of medieval archaeologist Christina Schmid. The facility is a listed building .

literature

  • Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual by Norbert Grabherr . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz.
  • Christina Schmid, Georg Spiegelfeld: The castle (s) Volkersdorf. In: Südtiroler Burgeninstitut (Ed.): Burgen Perspektiven. 50 years of the South Tyrolean Castle Institute, 1961–2013. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck, ISBN 978-3-7030-0838-2 , pp. 111-118.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmid & Spiegelfeld, 2013, p. 114.
  2. ↑ Christian K. Steingruber , 2013, p. 166.
  3. ^ Tillysburg in Upper Austria - Magnetometer and ground radar prospection of a medieval castle. In: pzp.de. May 17, 2013, accessed September 30, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 49.3 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 21.7"  E