Ried am Riederberg castle ruins
| Ried castle ruins | ||
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 Round tower ruins during the archaeological excavation in 2013 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Ried Castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Limestone | |
| Place: | Ried am Riederberg | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 14 '50.9 " N , 16 ° 4' 22" E | |
| Height: | 321 m above sea level A. | |
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The castle ruin Ried is the ruin of a spur castle on the local mountain of Ried am Riederberg in the Vienna Woods , which, according to the current state of research, was probably built around 1200. Today only sparse remains of a Romanesque round tower ruin , a kennel wall and the outer bailey are preserved.
location
The remains of the castle complex are located on a 320 m high hilltop in front of the Klosterberg to the northwest, with the field name Hausberg around 1 km south of Ried am Riederberg . The approximately 3000 m² large, Hausberg-like core castle is surrounded by a moat and an impressive system of ramparts and ditches.
history
Documented around 1170 a Babenberg ministerial named Konrad von Ried comes into question as the founder of the castle. Under unexplained circumstances, the castle came into the possession of the Kuenringers at the beginning of the 13th century . On May 22nd, 1211 Hadmar II von Kuenring succeeded in separating the Rieder castle chapel from the mother parish of Sieghartskirchen. As early as 1260, the brothers Leuthold and Heinrich von Kuenring exchanged the castle Ried, administered by burgraves , with the Bohemian king Ottokar II. Přemysl for the pledge of the city of Zwettl and the enfeoffment with Rossatz . On July 21, 1280 Rudolf von Habsburg confirmed the exchange again. Konrad von Tulln , land clerk and financier of Rudolf von Habsburg, received the castle in 1281 as a ducal pledge for the enormous costs of the campaign against Ottokar II Přemysl. In 1286 Konrad von Tulln left the castle to his daughter Adelheid and his son-in-law Otto von Kahlenberg, who called himself the Schenk von Ried several times . The taverns of Ried, which hold ducal offices such as the forester at the Vienna Hofburg , can be documented until the beginning of the 15th century. It was not until 1381 that the pledge of the castle could be converted into a fief by Hans the gift of Ried for money . In 1412 he died childless as the last of his family. His widow Walpurga, née Hauser, waived the castle in exchange for financial compensation, which was then returned to Duke Albrecht II . In a deed of ownership, his son Ladislaus Postumus confirmed the castle shortly afterwards as deserted. Presumably the complex still existed as a ruin and was almost completely destroyed by extensive use as a quarry.
State of preservation
Due to stone robbery in the last few centuries, there is only a little above-ground masonry left of the castle complex. The remains of a Romanesque round tower ruin, which can be classified in the first half of the 13th century, are among the most striking still standing masonry. Remnants of the wall of a kennel in front to the west and an extensive outer bailey can still be seen here and there in some places. In particular, the remains of the inner castle are partly buried several meters under rubble.
The castle ruins today
Devastating storms in recent years ( hurricane Kyrill 2007, storm Paula and hurricane Emma 2008) have seriously affected the area. Part of the European beech forest in the center of the facility suffered a wind break or was uprooted. Since 2010 the listed ruin has been secured by a conservation association. Since 2011, the non-professional association has been coordinating a Citizen Science project for archaeological and architectural research into the castle complex, with the involvement of interested scientists .
literature
- Günter Marian: Studies on the medieval nobility in the Tullnerfeld. phil. Diss. Vienna, 2015, pp. 320–348 ( online version as PDF at univie.ac.at).
- Thomas Kühtreiber : Noble residences in Tullnerfeld - a search for traces. In: Aristocratic culture in the "province": The Lower Austrian Tullnerfeld as a medieval cultural landscape (12th-14th century) , Krems 2016, p. 80.
- Wilhelm Twerdy: Contributions to the history of the Vienna Woods. Volume 2, Heimat-Verlag, Budapest / Schwarzach / Bruck ad Leitha 1998, pp. 264–267 and 514–518.
- Rudolf Büttner: Castles and palaces, between Greifenstein and St. Pölten. II / 1, Vienna 1969, p. 57f.
- Wolfgang Häusler : Land between the Danube and Schöpfl. Youth and People Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7141-7605-5 .
- Hans P. Schad'n: The local mountains and related fortifications in Lower Austria. A contribution to the history of medieval fortifications and their development from the ring wall to the walled castle and city defenses. In: Prehistoric Research. Volume 3, Berger, Vienna 1953.
- Richard Perger: Kahlenberger, Heiligenstädter and Schenken von Ried. In: Yearbook of the Association of the City of Vienna , Volume 17/18, Horn 1962.
photos
Zwingermauer seen from the moat
Zwingermauer seen from the moat
Round tower ruins in the center of the complex
Zwingermauer seen from the courtyard
Armory hole in the kennel wall
