Hohenstein castle ruins (Gföhl)
| Hohenstein castle ruins | ||
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 Hohenstein castle ruins (2011) |
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| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Gföhl- Hohenstein | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 27 '59.4 " N , 15 ° 26' 33" E | |
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The Hohenstein Castle ruins are the ruins of a spur castle on a steep rock head above the Krems River south of the clustered village Hohenstein in the area of the municipality of Gföhl in Lower Austria .
history
Around 1156/1171 a "Reinpendet de Hohinstaine" is mentioned for the first time in a ducal document. Between 1205/1220 the brothers Hugo von Rastenberg and Konrad von Hohenstein are mentioned, between 1265/1287 Albero von Hohenstein and his brother Otto von Rastenberg are mentioned several times.
1300/1301 donated Euphemia to the Schenkin von Schenkenberg , mother-in-law of Albero von Hauenstein, for Agnes von Schenkenberg in the Dominican convent in Tulln (the family of her deceased husband Wilhelm were builders of Schenkenberg Castle in the Czech Republic). In 1360 Euphemia von Hohenstein, daughter of Otto von Hohenstein and Anna, was also in the nun in Imbach Abbey.
The noble family of Hohensteiners, due to the common mentions from 1200/1220 onwards as a branch line of the lords of Ottenstein-Rastenberg, are represented in many documents until 1391. In 1377 a chapel dedicated to St. Peter is mentioned in the castle. In 1429 it is called "castrum". In 1430 the property came to the Starhemberg. The castle is already described as desolate in 1456. 1570–1606 it belongs to the Lords of Landau, then Georg Rattenberger. In 1675 Hohenstein is owned by the Lords of Weixelburg, in 1698 by Ferdinand Franz von Enkevoerts and in 1725 by the Barons of Gudenus . The family still owns the castle ruins to this day.
Building description
The up to 2.30 m thick walls of the central, dominant building have a series of window openings, the characteristic of which is the wide, funnel-shaped, rectangular reveals. The residential construction is due to the construction details and construction technology in the 14th / 15th. Date to the 16th century.
On a lower plateau to the east stands the multi-storey castle chapel , a compact, approximately 8.40 x 8.00 m Romanesque apse room from the 12th century.
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Hohenstein on p. 438f.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan dictionary. Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, 1994, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 .
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel and Wachau. Verlag Schubert & Franzke, 2001, ISBN 3-7056-0530-5 .
- Falko Daim , Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber (eds.): Castles Waldviertel - Wachau - Moravian Thayatal. Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , pp. 162-163.
- Georg Clam Martinic : Austrian Castle Lexicon. 1992, p. 138.
Web links
- Entry on Hohenstein an der Krems in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about Hohenstein Castle Ruins (Gföhl) on NÖ-Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry at www.wehrbauten.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Entry about Hohenstein Castle Ruins (Gföhl) on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- ↑ entry of Gebriele Rustemeyer to Hohenstein an der Krems in the scientific database " EBIDAT " European Castle Institute, accessed on 16 September 2016th
- ↑ Online at Austria Forum