Imbach castle ruins
| Imbach castle ruins | ||
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 Imbach castle ruins from the west (2013) |
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| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Spornburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Senftenberg-Imbach | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 26 '15.9 " N , 15 ° 34' 32.7" E | |
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The Imbach castle ruins are the ruins of a spur castle on the eastern foothills of the Scheibelberg, at the meeting of the castle valley and the Kremstal, above the Krems river south of the village of Imbach in the area of the market town of Senftenberg in Lower Austria .
history
The former castle Imbach is the original Ansitz the time being free, with the on Rehberg seated Lengenfelder Bachern kindred, of the 12th century to the end of the ministerials acting Minne Bacher. We encounter Adalbert and his brother Rüdiger as the first representative in the sources by 1130 at the latest. At the beginning of the 13th century, several members of the knightly followers of the Minnebacher who named themselves after Imbach are documented. Around 1200 Tuta von Minnebach (-Senftenberg) brought Imbach Castle into the marriage with Wichard (I.) von Weikertschlag-Zöbing. After the death of the last male Zöbinger, the Imbach rule came to Karl von Gutrat, who came from a Salzburg ministerial family, by marrying a female member of the sex - probably Margarete von Zöbing-Senftenberg-Weikertschlag - at the latest in 1232 . The complex transition of the Imbach rule to the von Feldsberg rulers is currently unclear. In 1269 Albero von Feldsberg left Imbach Castle to the Imbach Dominican Convent , which he founded in the same year , which resulted in the building being demolished as building material.
Building description and building history
The west-east-oriented mountain spur is separated from the north-west rising Scheibelberg by a now partially flattened neck ditch . Excavations by the Federal Monuments Office under the direction of the excavation technician Gustav Melzer between 1979 and 1981 were able to move a complex, multi-phase castle complex to Tege despite the cramped topography for the postulated time of origin. In the center of the stronghold are the remains of a building with walls less than one meter thick, which according to the structure of the wall can be dated to the first half of the 12th century. Another early, isolated, tower-like building is preceded by the west and from the dungeon built over the 13th century. At the end of the spur in the east of the stronghold are the foundations of the former castle chapel , an apsidal hall of approx. 7.70 × 4.80 m. A massive expansion of the castle complex took place in the first half of the 13th century with a polygonal ring and a keep in the west that included older building remains. The multi-phase castle complex of the High Middle Ages is significant for castle history, as it is a valuable example of the early castle building in Eastern Austria, which has not yet been well researched, and its layout can be compared with the nearby Rehberg castle ruins . In 1999, the current landowner built a modern chapel to the west above the castle ruins, which in a way is supposed to cite the shape of the former castle chapel.
During excavation work in the castle area in 2003/04, over a hundred ceramic fragments and two Romanesque capitals made of white quartzite (Kremstal marble) were found. These show the basic shape of a cube capital with a spider plate and shaft ring and are designed the same on all sides. While one presents itself with bulging, counter-rotating spirals, the other shows a bulging horseshoe shape. The two stones prove the relatively high-quality architectural features of the small castle; comparisons with capitals from the palas of Rastenberg Castle suggest a time around 1200. In the period 2013/2014, the sometimes unsecured remains of the wall were secured by the property owner in cooperation with the Federal Monuments Office and the Lower Austrian Village and Town Renewal.
literature
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles - Waldviertel and Wachau. Verlag Schubert & Franzke, 2001, ISBN 3-7056-0530-5 .
- Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber (Eds.): Castles Waldviertel - Wachau - Moravian Thayatal. Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , p. 478.
- Gerhard Seebach : Imbach Castle. In: Franz Fux (ed.): Under veil and crook. History of Imbach. Imbach 1989, pp. 669-671.
- Wilhelm Karlin, “ The hall book of the Benedictine monastery in Göttweig ” in Fontes rerum Austriacarum. Austrian historical sources. Second Division, Diplomataria et acta, Volume VIII, 1855: Historical Commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna
Web links
- Entry on Imbach in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about Imbach castle ruins on Lower Austria castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Imbach castle ruins on Burgen-Austria
- Location / history / architectural description of the Imbach castle ruins
- H. Wraunek: 3D view of the ruin
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the documentary mention, see Saalbuch, Göttweig, pp. 85, 86, 228, 312 etc.
- ↑ cf. on this Imbach, Dominican women (1267-1764) in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
- ↑ Niederösterreichs Burgen, IMAREAL , article Imbach I, accessed on May 20, 2015.
- ↑ Oliver and Andreas Fries, in Fund reports from Austria, Volume 45, year 2006, pages 734–735.
- ^ Entry on Imbach in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on September 16, 2016.
- ↑ Article about the backup work ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved May 20, 2015.
