Castle shore

Castle shore
Location of the Ufer castle in the Ufer district of Wilhering
Alternative name (s):	Wilhering Castle
Creation time :	1146 (first documented mention), probably already in the 11th century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, foundation walls
Place:	community Wilhering
Geographical location	48 ° 19 '36.4 "  N , 14 ° 10' 28.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '36.4 "  N , 14 ° 10' 28.7"  E
Height:	265  m

The Ufer castle , also called Wilhering Castle , is an abandoned hilltop castle in the district of the same name in the municipality of Wilhering in the Linz-Land district of Upper Austria . In the 19th century a distinction was made between a castle Wilhering and an old Wilhering. The latter is likely to have been a Roman building that was excavated in 1935.

history

The castle Ufer or Wilhering was the ancestral castle of the high free lords of Wilhering-Waxenberg. Wilhering Castle was probably built in the 2nd half of the 11th century. However, it was first mentioned in a document as "Castrum" around 1146/49.

Little is known about the history of the Wilheringer family. The frequently mentioned Alram von Wilhering is only mentioned in a forged letter from the Erla nunnery and therefore probably never existed. Aribo de Wilheringen is proven to be the oldest representative of the family; He appears in the traditions of the Vornbach monastery among numerous representatives of the Formbach count family together with Bernhard von Aschach. Aribo may have cleared north of the Danube; This clearing activity was intensified from 1100 by Ulrich I. von Wilhering. Ulrich I and his wife Otilia founded the parish of Gramastetten in 1110 , which was immediately given the status of a parish by the Passau bishop Udalrich . The important castles Ottensheim , Rotenfels and Waxenberg were probably built around this time . Ulrich II. And his brother Cholo II. Established a Cistercian monastery in Wilhering , which was completed around 1146. Wilhering Castle is believed to have been abandoned and used as a quarry when the monastery church was built in 1195. At the same time as the monastery was founded, the Lords of Wilhering moved their mansion to the much more secure Waxenberg Castle in the middle of their cleared area.

In 1147 Ulrich II set out with Bernhard von Trixen on the second crusade, from which he was never to return. On September 25, 1154 the Wilhering-Waxenberger died out with Cholo II in the male line.

Cholo's daughter Elisabeth took over the paternal inheritance; around 1170 she married Wernherr von Griesbach, an important representative of a noble family resident in Bavaria in the entourage of the Babenberg dukes . Wernherr took part in the Reichstag of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in Nuremberg in 1181 . From this marriage there were three sons: Walchun, Cholo and Heinrich. Around the year 1209, the event is to be set in which Walchun, who was to take over the rule of Wilhering-Waxenberg, was pierced by an arrow and died. Cholo von Griesbach, to whom the inheritance was intended after the death of his brother, died in 1214. The third brother Heinrich, who was originally intended for a spiritual career and is attested as pastor of Gramastetten and Canon of Bamberg , became a layperson and united the property of the Griesbacher and Wilhering-Waxenberger in one hand. He died around the year 1221 and that ended the male line of the Griesbacher.

After his death, both the Bishop of Passau and the Babenbergs made claims to the inheritance. After both parties had come to an agreement, the entire Griesbach property west of the Große Mühl came into the hands of the Diocese of Passau; the rule Wilhering-Waxenberg passed to the Babenberg family.

Tribe list of the nobles from Wilhering-Waxenberg

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1. Alram de Wilheringen (around 1050), not secured
   1. Aribo by Wilhering (1095)
      1. Cholo (nobilis vir, † 1115)
      2. Ulrich I (around 1105 nobilis homo, 1108–1110 Domvogt of Passau, † December 29th after 1133), ∞ Ottilia († April 11th after 1146)
         1. Ottilia (around 1155, † 1158), ∞ Gottschalk von Haunsperg nobilis and Wildberg
         2. Elisabeth (1146, † March 19 ??) ∞ Udalschak (around 1130), ∞ Babo II of Amerang and Schleinitz Castle (around 1140–1167)
         3. Ulrich I. d. J. (urk. 1141–1147, † Crusade 1148)
         4. Cholo II von Wilhering (around 1150) von Rodenfels (1140–1151) († September 25, 1154), ∞ Benedikta († before husband, widow of Konrad von Sindlburg)
            1. Elisabeth von Waxenberg (urk. 1154, † after 1214) ∞ (before 1180) Werner (Wernherr) von Griesbach (urk. 1160–1197, † crusade 1198)
               1. Walchun II of Waxenberg (urk. 1198–1201) and von Griesbach (1194–1206), (died February 11, 1210) ∞ Gueta (Judith) (around 1210, † July 2 ??)
               2. Cholo, 1202 von Griesbach (urk. 1202–1213) (fallen on July 19, 1214) ∞ Gisela († January 30 after 1214 as a converse in St. Florian Monastery )
               3. Heinrich von Waxenberg (1206 Canon of Bamberg and Pastor of Gramastetten) 1217 of Griesbach (died October 6, 1221) ∞ Hedwig († June 20 ??)
                  1. Hedwig (urk. 1258, † September 29, 1264) ∞ Wernhart II. Von Schaunberg (1217, † April 9, 1266/67)

Tribe list of the nobles of Griesbach-Waxenberg

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1. Adalbero I. Calf Grass (before 1099), 1108 von Griesbach, († around 1125)
   1. Adalbero II (dated 1122–1123)
   2. Walchun I. von Griesbach (urk. 1130–1147, † 1148 on a crusade), ∞ Richenza (1149, † around 1160)
      1. Werner (Wernherr) von Griesbach (urk. 1160–1197, † 1198 on a crusade), ∞ Elisabeth von Waxenberg (urk. 1154, † after 1214)
         1. Walchun II of Waxenberg (urk. 1198–1201) and von Griesbach (1194–1206), (died February 11, 1210) ∞ Gueta (Judith) (around 1210, † July 2 ??)
         2. Cholo, 1202 von Griesbach (urk. 1202–1213) (fallen on July 19, 1214) ∞ Gisela († January 30 after 1214 as a converse in St. Florian Monastery )
         3. Heinrich von Waxenberg (1206 Canon of Bamberg and Pastor of Gramastetten) 1217 of Griesbach (died October 6, 1221) ∞ Hedwig († June 20 ??)
            1. Hedwig (urk. 1258, † September 29, 1264) ∞ Wernhart II. Von Schaunberg (1217, † April 9, 1266/67)

Wilhering Castle today

Sketch of Wilhering Castle by Ludwig Benesch (1911)

The castle complex was located in the 11th and 12th centuries on a rock head high above the Danube at an old river crossing. Almost nothing is left of this historically significant complex; only an earth substructure is still recognizable between the Wilflingseder bakery and the "Dionysos" inn (formerly "Donaualm") in Wilhering. According to an excavation report from 1932, the core plant area is approx. 25 × 35 m. During an archaeological investigation of the core work area of ​​the once mighty dynasty castle, 1.10–1.30 meter thick foundations were uncovered. The remains of a prehistoric fireplace and prehistoric, Roman and medieval ceramic fragments as well as a plate decorated with a wavy ribbon from the 11th or 12th century and modern pot tiles were found under one of the foundation walls .

literature

• Gebhard Rath : The castles Wilhering and Alt-Wilhering. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austria. Museum association. Volume 87, Linz 1937, pp. 471-480, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
• Christian K. Steingruber : Research area Kürnberg: New knowledge about prehistoric and early historical soil monuments. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Volume 61, Linz 2007, pp. 165-190.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gebhard Rath, 1937, p. 476.
2. ↑ Wilhering-Waxenberger on archäologie-ooe.info ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Pedigree of Lord von Wilhering
4. ↑ Master list based on Detlev Schwennike (Hrsg.), Europäische Stammtafeln. Family tables on the history of the European states. New series (Volume XVI). JA Stargardt, Berlin: 1995, plate 42 A.
5. ↑ Master list based on Detlev Schwennike (Hrsg.), Europäische Stammtafeln. Family tables on the history of the European states. New series (Volume XVI). JA Stargardt, Berlin: 1995, plate 42 B.
6. ↑ Gebhard Rath, 1937.