Castle ruins Neuburg (Koblach)
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| Creation time : | 12th century (1152 AD, building stock 13th / 14th century) | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Ruin (demolished in 1769, listed) | |
| Place: | Koblach | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 19 '28 " N , 9 ° 37' 25" E | |
| Height: | 492 m above sea level A. | |
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The castle ruin Neuburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle on the Inselberg of the same name in the Rhine Valley plain in the municipality of Koblach in Vorarlberg .
history
The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1152 in Guelf possession, in 1191 it became a Hohenstaufen castle. Since about 1268 it has been under the rule of the family of the knight Thumb von Neuburg . Hugo Thumb von Neuburg sold together with his brother Schicker on April 8, 1363 the castle and rule of Neuburg to the Habsburgs . After that, the castle and the lordship came under the administration of bailiffs or (through the allocation of pledges) counts (1405 counts of Montfort , 1589 counts of Hohenems , 1679 counts of Clary-Aldringen ). At the end of January 1445, the battle near Koblach took place in the context of the Old Zurich War in front of the Neuburg .
In the 15th century, conversions and extensions were carried out such as the insertion of two semicircular roundels with artillery slots in the east, then around 1500 the installation of a mighty cannon roundel in the south, and in the north an inner area for small guns was built by means of embankments. The west was secured on a raised rock head by the stronghold, which was built in the 12th century, and a palace was added to the south in the 13th century .
After the conquest of Bregenz by the Swedes on January 4, 1647 , the well-equipped Neuburg, which was only guarded by one soldier, was taken without a fight. About 90 Swedish soldiers then took quarters in the Neuburg. Karl Friedrich von Hohenems and later General Adrian Freiherr von Enkevoirt besieged the castle unsuccessfully with troops and damaged the castle in the process. On May 23, 1647, the Swedes withdrew from the Neuburg, whereupon repair work on the castle began on June 6, 1647, which was completed in September 1651 and was partly carried out in forced labor.
The castle was taken out of use in 1744 and demolished in 1769. From 1956, maintenance work was carried out on the castle ruins.
investment
The extensive surrounding walls and pre-fortifications were adapted to the steep flanks of the Inselberg and thus ran irregularly. Access was through a narrow gate fence in the south . Due to the wall structure of the foundations that are still in place, construction in the 13th and 14th centuries is considered secure.
Regionally occurring tufa was used for the wall parts around windows and doors . A filter cistern lined with stone was used to supply the water .
literature
- Alois Niederstätter : The Vorarlberg castles . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7030-0953-2 , pp. 116-124.
- Franz Josef Huber: The Neuburg and its building history . In: Koblach community book . Koblach 1995.
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Koblach. Neuburg castle ruins. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , pp. 274-275.
Web links
- Entry over castle ruins Neuburg (Koblach) to Burgen-Austria
- Neuburg Castle on Burgenwelt.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Alois Niederstätter: Austrian History 1278-1411. The rule of Austria. Prince and country in the late Middle Ages. Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2001, p. 158
- ^ Dehio Vorarlberg 1983
- ↑ Ground plan for the main castle, viewed on October 12, 2010
- ↑ Christoph Volaucnik, An archival document on the building history of Neuburg in the Feldkirch city archive , in Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsverein 1857, activity report of the Burgenausschuss 2001 , p. 34 ff.
- ↑ Michael Unterwurzacher, Beate Rüf, Diethard Sanders, " Quelltuff in Vorarlberg - Education, Use, Material-Technical Properties ", Vorarlberger Naturschau, 19, pp. 207–224, Dornbirn 2006.
- ↑ Harald Rhomberg, The water supply to castles , in Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsverein 1857, activity report of the castles committee 2001 , p. 46 ff.