Klausegg castle ruins
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 Klauseck castle ruins |
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 9 '18.8 " N , 13 ° 57' 44" E | |
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The ruins of Klausegg Castle are a former border fortification against Styria in Seetal in Lungau . It was built in the Middle Ages by the Salzburg archbishops together with a barrier wall dividing the valley. Remains of the castle and the defense system are still preserved today.
location
The ruins of the Höhenburg are located not far from the border between the federal states of Salzburg and Styria in Seetal / Lungau on the steep northern slope of the Gstoder at about 1280 m above sea level, about 70 meters above the valley floor of the Seetal, which extends from Tamsweg about 12 km to the east extends to the border with Styria, then continues to Seebach, where it flows into the Rantental . The border fortification also represents the easternmost point of today's state of Salzburg.
Description of the structures
The complex consists of castle ruins, fortification wall and Klausentor including the pass house and Klauswirt. The wall, which stretched from the northern slope of the valley over the hermitage approx. 400 m to the castle on the opposite side of the valley, was a complete barrier that could only be overcome through the Klausentor on Kommerzialstraße.
The castle ruins appear today as a box-like three-storey building with a size of approx. 27 × 12.50 m, with the intermediate ceilings long since collapsed. The stone building has a height of 16 m and is divided into three parts. It is secured on several sides by a moat .
The ground floor can be reached through the main entrance on the mountain side. Originally the entrance was on the valley side, it was later walled up. The walls show a uniform thickness of 2.60 m. The floor plan corresponds to the classic middle- floor house . To the left and right of the entrance room are approximately square rooms of approx. 7 × 7.5 m in size. The tripartite division continues on the first floor, on the second floor, which served as the residential floor, a partition wall was omitted, so that a stately living room with 15 × 8 m was created, which had five valley-side and two east-side seating niche windows.
history
The origins of the castle are in the dark, the construction is to be assumed in the period 1000 to 1200. The castle itself was probably built in the 13th century. The Salzburg archbishops carried out a systematic expansion of the border security towards the east according to the "Klaus system", the border to Styria was fortified with a dam in Seetal, as well as in Ramingstein and the Mandling Pass . The over 4 m high wall with battlements blocked off the entire valley over a length of approx. 400 m at the Klause and connected the castle (“Gschloß”) with the Klausentor, where transit was controlled and customs duties had to be paid. The “Passhaus”, which served as a toll and guard house, is built next to the gate. On the Salzburg side of the gate, travelers were able to fortify themselves in a tavern that still exists today as an inn at the Klause. The historic building is the home of the Archbishop of Salzburg, Eduard Macheiner (1907–1972).
The widespread opinion that the castle once belonged to the Lords of Pettau and that it was transferred to the Archbishop of Salzburg, Eberhard II, in 1246 with the Tamsweg market , could not be proven. The care set up at Klausegg was entrusted with military tasks. A castle hat was available to the keeper to carry out these tasks. In the first bloom of the Lungau mining industry, the office of a mountain hat was set up at Klausegg, which later passed to Moosham . Some of the keepers at Klausegg came from the most famous Lungau noble families, in particular Mooshaimer and Thannhauser worked as keepers at Klausegg. In 1354, Wulfing der Mooshaimer held this office. During the wars in Hungary at the end of the 15th century, in particular, there were repeated military conflicts at the fortification, which numerous finds bear testimony to. In the 17th century one finds repeated efforts to dissolve the care to Klausegg. In 1642 the Salzburg court chamber ordered the demolition of the border tower. In 1680, however, Martin Jocher was entrusted with the castle hat. The end of care is to be set at the end of the 17th century, the princely care office at Klausegg was combined with the main care at Moosham .
In 1712, an imperial official and toll house was built on Styrian territory not far from the Klausentor.
With the abandonment of maintenance, the castle and the entire defense system were left to decay. Nature tried to recapture the terrain that had been wrested from it. Parts of the former border wall were demolished and the stones were used for other buildings. The decay of the complex progressed rapidly, so that the following picture emerged for Joseph Benedikt Hueber as early as 1786: “On the left hand on a pleasant hill you can still see the memorial of the expired care officer Klausegg. The walls of this closed castle are overgrown with spruce and perennials, which have a very antique look. "
In 1999 the ruins and the border wall were restored. The parts of the wall that were worth preserving were sealed and provided with a protective roof. On the initiative of the Seetal elementary school, a legendary hiking trail was created that leads from the inn to the hermitage to the ruins.
Say
There are various legends about the overgrown fortifications, and the ruins are said to be haunted. The souls of the violent robber barons from the family of the "Klausegger" should do their nightly mischief there and wait for their redemption. An almost vertically sloping tunnel about 100 m west of the ruins is supposed to be the exit of an underground escape route from the castle. According to legend, on some nights you can see a flickering light there, reminding of a castle guard who was violently killed there.
literature
- Joseph Benedikt Hueber: Lungau landscape (topographical description of the Lungau landscape in the Fürstenthume Salzburg), Salzburg 1786
- Ignaz von Kürsinger : Lungau - historical, ethnographic and statistical, Salzburg 1853
- Klaus, Josephine and Anton Heitzmann: Tamsweg, The story of a market and its rural communities, Verlag Wolfgang Pfeifenberger , Tamsweg 2008
- Steiner Gertraud: Winkelwelt, Verlag Wolfgang Pfeifenberger, Tamsweg 1999
Web links
- Overview of castles at website dickemauern.de
- Description at burgseite.com
- Klausegg castle ruins on ruins empire
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Description of the Klausegg ruins. Website burgseite.com. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
- ↑ The Klausegg ruins in Seetal - Lungau ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of Die Medienwerkstatt GmbH. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
