Riedegg castle ruins
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 Riedegg castle ruins today |
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| Creation time : | 1145 (first documented mention) | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Riedegg district of the municipality of Alberndorf in Riedmark | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 22 '5 " N , 14 ° 24' 14" E | |
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The Riedegg castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle in the district of the same name in the municipality of Alberndorf in Riedmark in the Urfahr-Umgebung district of Upper Austria .
history
Riedegg Castle was first mentioned in 1145 when the brothers Marchard and Gottschalk von Ridecco, also known as Haunsperg, lived in the castle. The Haunsperger were a highly free noble family who owned a cleared area (= Luß ) on both sides of the Haselbach and the Great Gusen and resided on Wildberg and Riedegg. At that time the castle was sent by Gottschalk the Haunsperger to the Passau monastery and taken back as a Passau fief in order to secure the inheritance of his daughter . In 1211 the property fell back to the Diocese of Passau, which exercised fiefdom until 1411. In 1256 Ulrich Lobenstein was named as the owner of the fief as pledge. In the following years the castle was administered by burgraves . The following are named: Artolf der Piber (1351), Hanns von Traun (1358, captain ob der Enns ), Friedrich der Walch (1361), Ulrich der Frodnacher (1373) and Eberhard der Stadler (1374).
In 1380 the Schaunbergers were in pledge possession of Riedegg. After the lost Schaunberg feud , they had to deliver the castle back to Passau without consideration. In 1395 the castle was pledged to Johann von Liechtenstein, who in turn gave the pledge to Heinrich VI. sold by Walsee . In 1398 the pledge was redeemed by the Diocese of Passau, but as early as 1401 Riedegg was pledged to Kaspar and Jörg Starhemberg , Lord von Wildberg, who bought it together with the Gallneukirchen estate in 1411 . In 1529 the castle was reinforced under Erasmus von Starhemberg with the help of Turkish prisoners (stone cladding of the castle rock) and converted into Riedegg Castle . In 1594, Riedegg was counted among the refuges in wartime.
The Bishop's Passau High Court (1272–1411) and the Starhemberg High Court (1576–1756) belonging to the Riedegg Castle area had its place of execution on Penkenberg above Punzenberg in Gallneukirchen.
Riedegg castle ruins today
The castle stands at the top of a rock massif, with the rocks covered with a seven to eight meter high quarry stone wall to make storming impossible. The old castle is on the east side and is in ruins; two rooms with ribbed vaults date from the 2nd half of the 14th century. The tower of the Altburg was integrated into the building of the Riedegg Castle during the new construction.
Riedegg castle ruins
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literature
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home . 3. Edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
- Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 1: Mühlviertel . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1962.
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
Web links
- Entry via Riedegg to Burgen-Austria
- Riedegg on Burgenkunde.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilhelm Mayrhofer: The Penkenberg-directional instead in Gallneukirchen. From the legal history of the old Riedmark. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 2017, issue 3/4, p. 150, entire article p. 149–160, PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at