Ortenburg ruins
| Ortenburg ruins | ||
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 Ortenburg ruins |
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| Creation time : | 1070 to 1096 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Baldramsdorf | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 47 '37.5 " N , 13 ° 27' 32.1" E | |
| Height: | 740 m above sea level A. | |
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The Ortenburg ruins are located in the Austrian village of Unterhaus in the municipality of Baldramsdorf , west of Spittal an der Drau , on the lower northern slope of the Goldeck and on the southeastern edge of the Lurnfeld .
history
The hill fort is a twin castle , 740 m above sea level, with two drawbridges in two courtyards with a Gothic outer bailey and a Romanesque keep . In the third courtyard is a Romanesque-Gothic chapel , a fortified tower and the Palas . The complex was built by Adalbert, the Freising Vizedom in Lurngau (1070 to 1096), whose son Otto called himself Count von Ortenburg from 1141 . The oldest documented mention of the castle comes from the year 1136. The Ortenburg, like other Carinthian castles, was destroyed or at least damaged by the earthquake of 1348 .
The castle was once the center of the mighty Carinthian county, to which the former urban area of Teurnia (Celtic-Roman capital of the Inner Noricum and early Christian bishopric), the Drautal from Möllbrücke to Villach and possessions in Upper Carniola (around Radmannsdorf ) and Lower Carniola (on the edge or . including the Gottschee ) belonged.
Alliances and mining made the Ortenburgers rich; They are the founders of Spittel in 1192 and the Spittal market, owned several castles and defended the patriarchs against Venice ("Sword of Aquileias") until they died out in 1418.
The name Grafschaft Ortenburg was inherited, awarded and sold several times and lasted until 1918. With the construction of the castle in Spittal in 1527 by Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg , the Ortenburg only became an apartment for servants. In 1662 the Widmann brothers sold the county to the Princes of Porcia .
In 1690 the Ortenburg was destroyed by an earthquake and a hurricane-like storm. A hermitage was built from defensive walls and barriers on the mountainside. This had to give way to the new building (1720–1760) of the monastery - looked after by the Order of the Hieronymites - at today's location. Joseph II dissolved the order. Gustav Ritter von Gröller acquired the property in 1871.
The Marhube with watchtowers and the area of the ruin have been owned by the Edlinger-Schurian family since 1955.
With the establishment of our own association in 1976, the ruins were renovated and made accessible to visitors again. The “Association of Helpers of the Ortenburg” in Baldramsdorf ensures the preservation of the historical site.
Former administrative headquarters
From here, the Counts of Ortenburg administered their Upper Carinthian and Carniolan possessions and the primeval forest-like area between Reifnitz / Ribnica and Kulpa , which was transferred as a fief by the Patriarchs of Aquileia in the middle of the 13th century , which gave way from the 30s of the 14th century Upper Carinthian-East Tyrolean farmer sons and from which the German language island Gottschee developed.
See also
literature
- Dehio Handbook Carinthia. Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 686 f.
- Andreas Ahammer: The Ortenburg - an extensive hillside complex in Upper Carinthia. In: Stefanie Lieb (Red.): Castles in the Alps . Published by the Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces V., Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-760-9 , pp. 48-52 (from the series: Research on castles and palaces, Volume 14).
Web links
- Entry via Ortenburg on Burgen-Austria
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- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://opac.geologie.ac.at/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=images&value=BR0064_032_A.pdf
- ↑ http://emidius.mi.ingv.it/RHISE/ii_20ham/ii_20ham.html
