Mitterberg castle ruins
| Mitterberg castle ruins | ||
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 Mitterberg castle ruins in 1673. View from the south. 1 residential tower. 2 left: Chapel exit. right: main cellar. 3 roundabouts (corner and half towers). 4 moat. 5 bridge. 6 outer bailey, tower. 7 rocks and forest. |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1165 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | Castle ruins | |
| Place: | Mitterberg , city of Perg | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 15 '14.4 " N , 14 ° 39' 32.8" E | |
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The Mitterberg castle ruins are hidden in the forest to the east of the town of Perg in Upper Austria . Mitterberg was formerly the largest castle in the Mühlviertel . From 1278 to 1491 it was the seat of the major district court of Machland.
location
The ruins of the hilltop castle are hidden on a rocky knoll under mixed forest about 2 km east of the town of Perg and 200 m southwest of the Mitterberg settlement . The Thurnhofbach flows past below the cliff. It reaches the town of Thurnhof in the south after about 800 m. The ruin is on private property and is not a listed building.
description
The former castle was the largest castle complex in the Mühlviertel in the Middle Ages and, after Schaunburg Castle (municipality of Hartkirchen), the second largest in what is now Upper Austria . The castle complex extends over a length of more than 200 meters from north to south. The main castle was only reached after crossing three outer castles . A detailed description can be found on Martin Aigner's castle page.
In the 17th century, stones from the castle were used to build Windhaag Castle and Pragtal Castle . There are therefore only a few upright stone walls left. The ramparts and moats are clearly recognizable. During excavations in the area of the castle, ceramic fragments and iron parts were uncovered, which are now in the Heimathaus-Stadtmuseum Perg ( Leopold Mayböck Collection ).
The owners and tenants of the Mitterberg estate
The name of the castle is first recorded in 1165. The builders and first owners were very likely the lords of Perg . It fell to the Babenberg sovereign after its extinction in 1191 at the latest . The castle probably belonged to those estates that were drafted in 1180 by Duke Leopold V of Babenberg and later given back to Friedrich II von Perg as a fief. In 1208 Gumpold and Marquard von Mitterberg were sitting in the castle. A relationship with the Lords of Perg and Machland is rather unlikely.
Other families on Mitterberg were in particular the Kapeller , Wallseer , Zelkinger and Prüschenken . In 1277 Ulrich II received from Kapellen from King Rudolf I, Duke of Austria, Mitterberg Castle as a sovereign fiefdom and a little later also the Machland Regional Court. In 1279 he became a captain on the Enns . Duke Albrecht I of Austria renewed the enfeoffment of the chapels. The district court was pledged to the Lords of Kapellen in 1318 and 1386.
Hans I. von Kapellen (also called Janns von Capellen) built a Marienkapelle in the inner courtyard of Mitterberg in 1351 , whereby in this context the parish Pergkirchen had to be compensated with goods in Kreuzen and Mitterkirchen . The ecclesiastical feudal lord of the parish church of Pergkirchen, the abbot of Melk Abbey , granted the chaplains a chaplain for their castle chapel.
Since one of the daughters of the last chaplain, Eberhard II von Kapellen († 1406), Dorothea von Kapellen († around 1426), married the Liechtensteiner Hartneid V. († 1427), Mitterberg first came to this and later to the Wallseer or the Zelkinger and remained in their possession until the end of the 15th century.
In 1491, a smaller part of the Mitterberg lordship with the castle, which had already deteriorated into a ruin, was separated from the Machland district court and that of Emperor Friedrich III. the newly created district court Windhaag , which at that time belonged to the Prague residents . The greater part of the Mitterberg rule and the regional court fell to the brothers Sigmund and Heinrich Prüschenk , the later Counts of Hardegg and in the Machland. These had built the Greinburg , also called Heinrichsburg, between 1491 and 1493 . For the time being, a nurse stayed in Mitterberg. Eventually the castle was completely abandoned and deteriorated more and more. In 1564, Andreas of Prague (1514–1569) used building blocks from the castle for his Prague Valley Castle .
The Machland District Court
The district court Machland was around 1227 by the Babenberger Duke Leopold VI. established, and the neighboring district court of Riedmark was probably created around this time. The boundary between the two regional courts is no longer clearly identifiable, it was probably formed by the Aist , Waldaist and White Aist .
The seat of the regional court was initially Arbing Castle , later Klam Castle and, after 1278, Mitterberg Castle. In 1485 the regional court came to the Prüschenk, who moved the regional court from Mitterberg Castle to Greinburg (Heinrichsburg) and named it afterwards. In 1491, the district court Windhaag was formed from a part of the district court Machland . The Perg market and the Pergkirchen parish initially remained with the Machland and Greinburg district courts.
In 1591 the jurisdiction over the market of Perg (and the parishes Tragwein and Schwertberg ) passed to the rulership or the regional court Schwertberg and in 1661 that of the parish Pergkirchen was transferred to the rulership or the regional court Windhaag near Perg.
Traditional nurses from Mitterberg were: 1409 Stefan Piber. 1416–1424 Wilhelm Frodnacher. 1486 Christof Graaber
Picture gallery
1667
Access from the north
Round tower, outer bailey
Castle plateau
Basement hatch
Main cellar
window
Chapel exit
western corner tower
southern half tower
eastern corner tower
Castle hill from the south
Plan sketch by Leopold Mayböck
literature
- Florian Eibensteiner, Konrad Eibensteiner: The home book of Perg Upper Austria . Self-published, Linz 1933, p. 150ff.
- Norbert Grabherr: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria . Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1970, p. 264.
- Leopold Mayböck: The castle rule Mitterberg . In: Heimatverein Perg and Stadtgemeinde Perg (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg 2009 . Denkmayr Druck, Linz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902598-90-5 , p. 167ff.
- Franz Xaver Pritz : History of the country above the Enns from the oldest to the most recent, Linz 1847 . Commission for the maintenance of patriotic history of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (ed.): Archive for customer of Austrian historical sources, Volume 15, Vienna 1856 and Volume 18 / I., Vienna 1857.
- Stadtgemeinde Perg (Hrsg.): Perg Stadterheung 1969. Festschrift on the occasion of the town elevation . Trauner-Druck, Linz 1969, p. 79ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Aigner's castle side, building descriptions and plans of Austrian castles and castle ruins: Aigner's castle side "
