Rauheneck castle ruins
| Rauheneck Castle | ||
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 Rauheneck Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Ruhenekke | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Baden near Vienna | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 0 '22.5 " N , 16 ° 12' 17" E | |
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The Rauheneck Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle 2.5 km west of the center of Baden at Vienna in Lower Austria .
location
The ruin is located on a foothill of the Lindkogel on the right bank of the Schwechat . In the Middle Ages, together with Rauhenstein Castle and Scharfeneck Castle, it secured the traffic route from Baden through the Helenental via Heiligenkreuz to the Triestingtal .
investment
Today, as then, a wooden bridge leads over a deep ditch to a semicircular outer bailey with a 25-meter-high, triangular keep , which can be climbed via a wooden staircase as a lookout tower . In the inner courtyard, protected by eight meter high walls with attached kitchen and pantry used to be the palace , they reached the keep of that. In a further extension, which was not built until the 14th or 15th century , there were residential buildings and a chapel .
history
As the first owner of Rauheneck, Hartung von Ruhenekke is mentioned for the first time in an undated document (around 1130). The Rauhenecker family (who called themselves “ Tursen ” after 1200 ) colonized the forest at the foot of the castle in the 12th and 13th centuries , where a wreath of small villages was laid out. The lords of the castle only demanded very little (monetary) taxes and forest services from their subjects in the villages.
In 1384 the Tursen family died out and the properties passed to the Walsee family . In the eventful history, the castle was destroyed several times, but repeatedly rebuilt, in some cases even expanded.
In 1477 the Serbian troops of the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus stormed the castle and destroyed it, afterwards it was probably not rebuilt. The final destruction of Rauheneck Castle took place in 1529 by the Turks.
The ruins were later acquired by the Doblhoff family and made accessible to visitors in 1810. In 1961, the city of Baden acquired the castle hill with the ruins and had them renovated.
legend
According to legend, the builder of the tower wandered around the castle as a ghost. He is not redeemed until a cradle is made out of the wood of a pine tree that sprouts from the walls of the keep and a Sunday child is rocked in it, who later enters the priesthood. A storm destroyed the tree more than a hundred years ago, so the old spirit has to wander around complaining.
Nearby
In the vicinity of the castle is the Königshöhle , in which archaeological excavations made important finds from the Baden culture .
See also
Web links
- Entry via Rauheneck to Burgen-Austria
- Say.at - The spirit on Rauheneck
Remarks
- ↑ Leander Petzoldt (Ed.): Legends from Austria . Wiesbaden: Marix Verlag 2007, cf. P. 19