Alt-Leonroth castle ruins
| Alt-Leonroth castle ruins | ||
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 View of the two preserved remains of the curtain wall in the west and northwest of the complex. |
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| Alternative name (s): | Altleonrod, Waldschloss, Lestein, Lips-Jakl-Schlössl | |
| Creation time : | probably at the end of the 12th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Large-format quarry stone masonry in stock | |
| Place: | Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 0 '6.9 " N , 15 ° 8' 13.3" E | |
| Height: | 640 m above sea level A. | |
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The Alt-Leonroth castle ruins , also known as Altleonrod , Waldschloss , Lestein and Lips-Jakl-Schlössl , are the ruins of a hilltop castle above the Teigitschklamm in the municipality of Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg in the Voitsberg district in western Styria . It was probably built at the end of the 12th century to secure the old road to the Pack and was probably abandoned after this road was laid in the 15th century.
Location and name
The ruins of the Höhenburg are located in the cadastral community Großwöllmiß , which belongs to Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg , southeast of the lipjakl farm on the old road over the Teigitschklamm to the Pack . It is located there on a ridge above the Teigitschklamm oriented to the northwest and southeast, which slopes steeply to the southwest and northeast and in terraces to the southeast . The connection to the hinterland in the northwest is secured by a mighty neck ditch blasted from the rock .
In his early work, Robert Baravalle incorrectly located Alt-Leonroth Castle on a rock head immediately west of Neu-Leonroth Castle . In reality, Alt-Leonroth is about 2.5 kilometers south-southwest of Neu-Leonroth.
The name Leonroth is considered a courtly castle name and is composed of the Middle High German Lewe or Leun for lion or the personal name Leo as well as the Middle High German clearing which means to make arable . The name can also be interpreted as clearing the hill . The part of the name Alt serves to distinguish it from Neu-Leonroth Castle. In addition to the name Leonroth in different spellings, the castle is also called Waldschloss, Lestein or Lips-Jakl-Schlössl.
history
The castle complex was probably built at the end of the 12th century by the Krems family, who also owned Krems Castle near Voitsberg , in order to secure the road over the Teigitschklamm to the Pack. They also called themselves Krems-Leonrode in connection with their castles. Otto von Krems, who called himself von Lewenrode for the first time in 1196 and de Levnrode in 1218, can be seen as a possible builder of the castle . When the facility was abandoned is unknown, but it was probably in the 15th century in connection with the relocation of the road to the Pack.
So far, archaeological investigations have only been carried out in the form of small-scale excavations at the presumed location of the cistern in the castle courtyard and a room attached to the curtain wall, and metal prospecting carried out in 2004 and 2006 . During the excavations, vascular ceramics were found which date from the period between the second half of the 13th century and the 16th century. Most of the metal finds from the entire castle area date from modern times and the present. However, six bullet points and the crossguard of a dagger from the period between the 13th century and the 15th century were also found. There are no finds that can be clearly assigned to the High Middle Ages .
investment
The castle area, which is rectangular in plan, is surrounded by a curtain wall, which today is mostly only recognizable in its foundations. Only on the north-western corner of the wall above the neck ditch and in the west have larger-than-man-size remains of the curtain wall survived. The large-format quarry stone masonry of the remains of the wall suggests that it was built at the end of the 12th century or the beginning of the 13th century and that the entire complex was built in one construction phase. The western section of the wall has three simple loopholes for crossbows .
In addition to parts of the curtain wall, all the remains of the castle wall are only preserved as foundations. In the south of the complex, a building was installed between the eastern and western curtain wall, which has three rooms in plan. There was a narrow building on the western curtain wall, the remains of which are still preserved today. In the northwest of the facility there was probably a shield wall , in front of which a cone of debris can be closed.
See also
literature
- Werner Murgg: Castle ruins in Styria . Ed .: Federal Monuments Office (= B . Band 2 ). Ferdinand Berger & Sons, 2009, ISSN 1993-1263 , p. 148-149 .
- Ernst Lasnik: The castles Old and New Leonrod. In: St. Martin am Wöllmissberg. St. Martin am Wöllmissberg parish 2007. p. 55.
- Bernhard Hebert: KG Großwöllmiß. In: Find reports from Austria . Volume 45, year 2006. Vienna 2007. p. 61.
- Ernst Lasnik: KG Großwöllmiß. In: Find reports from Austria . Volume 43, year 2004. Vienna 2005. p. 56.
- Ernst Lasnik: Renovation measures on castles and palaces in western Styria. Bulletin of the correspondents of the Historical State Commission for Styria MKHLK. Volume 6, year 1999. pp. 226-230.
- Ernst Lasnik: Castles and renovation measures on castles in western Styria. Announcements from the Styrian Castle Association MStBV. Volume 20, year 1999. p. 226 ff.
- Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn: Dehio-Handbuch - Die Kunstdenkmäler Austria: Steiermark (without Graz). Topographical inventory of monuments, ed. from the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Monument Research. Publisher Anton Schroll. Vienna 1982. ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 . Pages 268 (as "castle ruins" in contrast to "Veste" Neu-Leonroth).
- Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces in Styria. Part III. Graz, Leibnitz, West Styria. 2nd edition Vienna 1981 (1st edition 1967). P. 112.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Werner Murgg: Castle ruins of Styria . Ed .: Federal Monuments Office (= B . Band 2 ). Ferdinand Berger & Sons, 2009, ISSN 1993-1263 , p. 148 .
- ↑ Werner Murgg: Castle ruins of Styria . Ed .: Federal Monuments Office (= B . Band 2 ). Ferdinand Berger & Sons, 2009, ISSN 1993-1263 , p. 149 .
- ^ A b Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 13 .
- ^ Walter Brunner (ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 171 .
- ↑ Werner Murgg: Castle ruins of Styria . Ed .: Federal Monuments Office (= B . Band 2 ). Ferdinand Berger & Sons, 2009, ISSN 1993-1263 , p. 148-149 .
