Rundersburg Castle
| Rundersburg Castle | ||
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 Rundersburg castle ruins - southeast view |
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| Alternative name (s): | Ronberg, Ronenberg | |
| Creation time : | around 1150 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | St. Leonhard am Hornerwald | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 36 '46.6 " N , 15 ° 30' 33" E | |
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The Castle Square Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle northwest of St. Leonhard am Hornerwald in Waldviertel in Lower Austria .
history
Around 1182/1189, Albero de Ronnenberg, a sovereign ministerial, was named in a document as a benefactor in favor of the Benedictine priest in Göttweig . In 1194 Ulrich von “Ronenberch” appeared, around 1196/1231 Ortolf (I.) v. "Roneberch". In a Lilienfeld document from around 1266–1293 a younger Ortolf - around 1270 together with Albert, Dietrich and Trauslieb - was mentioned several times in Altenburger, Heiligenkreuzer, Lilienfelder and St. Bernharder documents. He was the last detectable Ronberger, with him the family in the male line should have died out. The castle lost its seat function a little later and fell into disrepair. The property fell to the sovereign rule in Gars and finally in 1681 to the Idolsberg rule . In 1895 the extensive forest property was acquired by the Count Hoyos-Sprinzenstein . The facility is now privately owned.
Location and building description
The Runderburg is located opposite the Schauenstein Castle , 3.2 km northwest of St. Leonhard am Hornerwald on the densely wooded, left valley slope of the Franbach, which drains to the Kamp. The name Rundersburg (Ronnenberg) comes from the Middle High German word Rone for round and could be traced back to the shape of the terrain on which the former castle is located.
In the center of the hill is the remainder of a rectangular residential tower about 10 m wide in the south. The castle chapel of the same time is located on a terrace that is located on the ground. Both structures and the curtain wall are likely to have been built shortly before they were first mentioned in a document.
literature
- Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (= Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 1017 .
- Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes, Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 35.
- Paul Buberl : The monuments of the political district Zwettl . Austrian Art Topography VIII, Vienna 1911, p. 168.
- Bertrand Michael Buchmann , Brigitte Fassbinder: Castles and palaces between Gföhl, Ottenstein and Grafenegg. Castles and palaces in Lower Austria , Volume 17 Birch series, St. Pölten / Vienna 1990, pp. 60 ff.
- Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , p. 510 ff.
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages, floor plan dictionary . Würzburg 1994, p. 85.
- Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , p. 181.
- Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 372 ff.
- Ilse Schöndorfer: Stones and Legends - Castle ruins in Lower Austria , 1st edition 1999, Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten / Vienna, ISBN 3-85326-114-0 , p. 80 f.
- Gerhard Stenzel : From castle to castle in Austria. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1973, ISBN 321800229X , p. 218.
Web links
- Entry via Burg Rundersburg to Burgen-Austria
- Entry about Rundersburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about Burg Rundersburg on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Rundersburg at Wehrbauten.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ FRA II / 11, p. 176, no. 190. Accessed January 2, 2018 .
- ^ Lower Austria's castles, entry: Rundersburg. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Online at Austria Forum