Kogl castle ruins
| Kogl castle ruins | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Kogl Castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Kogl | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 13 '35.1 " N , 15 ° 59' 33.5" E | |
| Height: | 269 m above sea level A. | |
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The ruined castle Kogl is in Kogl in Vienna Woods located Outbound mountain plant (moth), probably built around 1200 and was canceled again in the 15th century.
Geographical location
The hill fort is located immediately east of the village of Kogl on a 269 m high hilltop with the field name Schlossberg . Around 500 m to the northwest are the recognizable remains of a possible house mountain as a predecessor.
history
The origins of the castle are closely related to the family of the iron bags. In 1311 Weigand the iron bag sold the castle to the ducal forester Ludwig von Döbling; it was sold to Ott von Kierling in 1329. 1403 Hans received from Kogl, a Eyczinger, by Duke Albrecht IV. The house for Kogl . In 1408, the mayor of Vienna, Konrad Vorlauf, was detained at the castle by partisans Duke Leopold IV of Habsburg and only released against a substantial ransom. Duke Albrecht occupied the castle in 1415 because Hans had made an incursion into Moravia. Hans got the fief back, but had to demolish the castle on the orders of the duke, after which it was no longer built.
description
There are hardly any structural remains of the castle itself. The main castle stood on a platform about 30 m in diameter, surrounded by two ring-shaped ditches . In the northeast, a ditch separates the facility from the hinterland.
literature
- Wilhelm Twerdy: Contributions to the history of the Vienna Woods. 2nd volume, Budapest; Schwarzach; Bruck ad Leitha: Heimat-Verlag, 1998, pp. 276-278