Eibenstein castle ruins
| Eibenstein castle ruins | ||
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 The ruin 2010 |
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| Creation time : | before 1194 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 50 '47.7 " N , 15 ° 34' 53.5" E | |
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The ruin Eibenstein is the ruin of a hilltop castle in Eibenstein in the Waidhofen an der Thaya district in Lower Austria .
history
The castle, first mentioned in 1194, was sold to the brothers Christoph and Erasmus von Schneckenreith or Schneckenreither on April 24, 1543. This family died out in 1569. At an unknown point in time, the castle came under the rule of Drosendorf and is now owned by the Hoyos family .
Since Georg Matthäus Vischer did not capture the ruins of Eibenstein, unlike numerous other buildings in the vicinity, the local researcher Franz Xaver Kießling considers it theoretically possible that the castle was already deserted during his lifetime. During the Thirty Years' War , however, the castle ruins are said to have been inhabited at least temporarily.
In various legends, the last owner of Eibenstein Castle is associated with the Knights Templar and the castle is finally ravaged by rebellious farmers.
location
The ruins of Eibenstein are located on the south bank of the Thaya opposite the village of Eibenstein with the parish church of St. Aegidius . Large parts of the north wall of the castle are said to have crashed over the steep rock face into the Thaya in 1867.
literature
- Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles Waldviertel Wachau - Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Bernd, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , pp. 388-391.
- Franz Xaver Kießling: The three Thaya castles Buchenstein, Eibenstein, Unter-Thyrnau together with the locality Lehstein and a short, historical-heraldic outline of the family of the Lords of Tirna (Thürnau) . Vienna 1895, p. 51 ff.
- Austrian art topography, published by the Art History Institute of the kk Central Commission for Monument Preservation, edited by Prof. Dr. Max Dvořák, Volume IV, The monuments of the political district Waidhofen ad Thaya in Lower Austria , on commission from Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1911.
- DEHIO Lower Austria - north of the Danube. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 .
- Jiří Kacetl, Petr Lazárek, David Molík: Hrady a zámky moravsko-rakouského Podyjí slovem / Castles of the Austro-Moravian Thaya Valley in words. South Moravian Museum in Znojmo in cooperation with the Retz City Museum, Znojmo 2013, ISBN 978-80-86974-12-5 ( PDF on znojmuz.cz; German and Czech).
Web links
- Entry on Eibenstein I in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about Eibenstein castle ruins on Lower Austria castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Eibenstein to Burgen-Austria
- Eibenstein Castle
- Eibenstein ruins
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eibenstein castles on eibenstein.heim.at ; Retrieved June 4, 2010