Edenvest castle ruins
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| Alternative name (s): | Edenfest, Leonstein, Lewenstein, Gruberrschlössl | |
| Creation time : | Mentioned in 1147 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Thomatal pits | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 4 '22.1 " N , 13 ° 43' 41.8" E | |
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The castle ruin Edenvest , also spelled Edenfest or called Leonstein , Lewenstein or Grubererschlössl , is the ruin of a rock castle in the Gruben (Höllweg) district of the Thomatal municipality in the Tamsweg district of Salzburg .
history
Edenvest is the first documented castle in the Lungau . 1147 are from Bishop Reginbert Passau of the Otto von Machland whose donations to the pin Waldhausen confirmed that he has made in Lungau; of this is explicitly the castle Lewenstein excluded. The next mention of Lewenstein comes from the year 1299: At that time Heinrich von Guetrat transferred all of his Salzburg possessions to Archbishop Konrad and received them again as a fief , including the castle stables at Lewenstein in Lungau . Later mentions relate to goods near Lewenstein , such as 1350/60 a Hube or 1429 Almen near Lewenstein . In a fiefdom letter issued to Eberhard von Moosham around 1467, only the desolate vestibule is mentioned, so the castle was already in ruins. Presumably it had been given up by the Salzburg archbishops because the castle was no longer needed as an administrative seat, which had already been moved to Gmünd by Archbishop Eberhard II .
Edenvest castle ruins today
On the left bank of the Bundschuhbach (south of Gruben) lie the remains of the Edenvest Castle (= "desolate fortress") on a rock head that is now densely forested. The facility is accessible from the north. In the south and east, the rock drops about 40 meters perpendicular to the Bundschuhbach. A part of the castle complex has crashed due to the underwashing of the Bundschuhbach. There is a moat in the west through which the castle was accessed. An old Roman road allegedly ran here . After the trench, two deep neck trenches follow . Behind the second neck ditch the rock spur rises steeply and offers space for an approx. 25 meter long and 8 meter wide castle square, which was probably surrounded by a curtain wall. Several layers of roughly hewn stone blocks can be seen up to a height of one meter. For this wall a continuous base has been cut out of the rock. On the north side there are remains of the enclosure and retaining wall. At the north-east corner, directly above the abyss, there is still a strongly rounded corner three meters high.
The provincial government of Salzburg carried out archaeological excavations at Edenvest from 1998–1999. The found remains of the wall, which no longer have any covered rooms, were secured. The Edenvest castle ruins, located in the pits above the Höllweg, can be visited all year round.
literature
- Friederike Zaisberger & Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Pongau, Pinzgau, Lungau . Birch series, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85030-037-4 .