Kollmitz castle ruins
| Kollmitz castle ruins | |
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 Kollmitz castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | 13th Century |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location |
| Conservation status: | ruin |
| Standing position : | Noble |
| Place: | Raabs an der Thaya |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 49 '18 " N , 15 ° 32' 0" E |
The Kollmitz castle ruins are the ruins of a spur castle east of the village of Raabs an der Thaya on a steeply sloping rock spur around which the Thaya flows in a wide loop. It is located in the cadastral municipality of Kollmitzdörfl of the municipality of Raabs an der Thaya.
The cyclopean walls with two round corner towers are the remains of one of the largest, once spacious, medieval , most important castles in Lower Austria . The semicircular gate tower with pointed arched gate , the hunger tower , the keep and the remains of a two-story residential building as well as various other components have been preserved. In the northwest rises the so-called Bohemian Wall , which was built around 1450 against Georg von Podiebrad , about 110 meters long , which is in front of the castle at a distance of about 300 meters.
history
The castle was first mentioned in a document in the 13th century. In the 14th century there was a district court there , whose gallows stood with Ludweis. The rulership changed frequently ( Wallseer , Winkel, Kratzer, Thyrna) until the castle became the seat of the barons of Hofkirchen in 1411 . Wolfgang von Hofkirchen , the last Kollmitzer Hofkirchen, died in exile in Prague in 1611, where he was expelled because of his Protestant faith. During the Counter Reformation he was regarded by the Catholic Habsburgs as the ringleader of the Protestant aristocratic classes.
Kollmitz was closely associated with Drösiedl for around 300 years . From 1570 Drösiedl was converted into a Renaissance castle and the old Kollmitz Castle might even have been abandoned if other owners had not lived there after the expulsion of the Hofkirche.
From 1616 the castle was owned by the Schütter, then the Schubhardt, from 1693 to the Pernegg monastery , and in 1708 the castle finally came into the possession of Franz Anton von Quarient and Raal (sometimes also Raall), owners of the Raab rulership , to whom it fell let. It is a legend that the castle was given up because of the roof tax . After 1708 there was simply no longer any use for the buildings, which is why they fell into disrepair or were even used as a quarry.
The castle had a predecessor on the other side of the valley west of Kollmitzgraben , whose location can hardly be recognized. This castle, which was only inhabited for about 150 years, was probably called Hauenstein. This old castle was only abandoned with the new building of Kollmitz 400 m to the east. All known mentions of Chalmunze etc. before 1250 refer to the Kollmitzberg near Amstetten . A dendrochronological study showed that the keep of the new Kollmitz Castle was completed in 1319.
The valley road that runs along the Thaya offers a good view of the castle complex.
The "Association for the Preservation of the Kollmitz Castle Ruins" has been looking after the facility since 1974, founded in the same year by the composer and local researcher Herbert Loskott . A snack station is operated on the ruins in summer.
literature
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber (eds.): Castles: Waldviertel and Wachau. 2nd Edition. Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 .
- Dehio Lower Austria North 1990.
- Erich Kerschbaumer: Kollmitz. In: known and unknown about Raabs. 2009, DNB 1000084701 .
- Erich Kerschbaumer: possession history Kollmitz, 2012.
- Oliver Fries, Ronald Woldron: Kollmitz - A castle of the Middle Ages in the 17th and 18th centuries. Selected results of construction research from May 2011 to October 2012. In: Hranice - historie - lidé. St. Pölten 2014, ISBN 978-3-901863-44-8 , pp. 209-230.
- Erich Kerschbaumer: Kollmitz: Bulwark against Bohemia. Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2773-3 .
- 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 , pp. 16–20 ( PDF on muzeumznojmo.cz; German and Czech).
Web links
- Site of the castle
- Entry on the Kollmitz castle ruins in the " EBIDAT " scientific database of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about the Kollmitz castle ruins on Lower Austria castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Kollmitz to Burgen-Austria
- Entry on the castle ruins of Kollmitz in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry about Schloss Drösiedl at NÖ-Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- ↑ Kollmitz ruins on the Thaya - Loskott. In: kollmitz.at. Retrieved December 28, 2016 .