Saalegg castle ruins
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| Alternative name (s): | Saaleck, Heidenschloss, Lambrechtsschloss | |
| Creation time : | first mentioned around 1147–1167 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone, limestone | |
| Place: | St. Martin near Lofer | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 31 '33.6 " N , 12 ° 44' 8.1" E | |
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The burgruine saalegg , sometimes as Saaleck referred and popularly Gentile or Lambrecht Castle called, is the ruin of a rock castle in the town of St. Martin bei Lofer in Zell am See district of Pinzgau from Salzburg .
The ruin is close to the Lamprechtsofenloch ; it can be reached on a footpath through the so-called Schlösslwald . From the parking lot of the Lamprechtsofenerloch you have to walk about 250 meters in the direction of St. Martin on the footpath parallel to the main road to the junction with the new main road. From there you take the forest road to the first sharp right turn. Here a small path branches off to the left, which crosses the stream to the left, after about 10 minutes and about 50 meters in altitude, the path branches off in a sharp right curve. From there you go directly to the castle rock (only recommended for experienced people).
history
The first written record dates from around 1147-1167, then a witness Engilpreth de Sale a Seelgerätstiftung for a Hochstiftministerialen in Niedernsill . A Dietricus de Salek witnessed the handover of a woman (a maid) to the Berchtesgaden Abbey at the end of the 12th century . Finally, a Perhtold de Salecke 1197 appears in a list of witnesses after the land provost of Plain . Perhtold de Salecke and his son Pilgrim von Waidring testify around 1215 that their master, Count Konrad von Plain, could not assert any rights against the Berchtesgaden Abbey. The Lords of Saalegg were therefore followers of the Plain Counts . In the second half of the 13th century, Pilgrim von Waidring hands over a farm to the Berchtesgaden Abbey.
In the middle of the 13th century, Albero and Otto von Walchen bought Saalegg from the Pilgrim's heirs. After that, a dispute broke out between the two brothers, in which Albero sued his older brother in 1280 for having stolen his purch datz Salekk , even though it was bought by both of them. After all, Albero had to do without Saalegg and Waidring. Otto's daughter Elspet married Ulrich von Frentsberg in 1297. She renounced her paternal inheritance and handed it over to the Salzburg bishopric . This then enfeoffed Konrad von Ramseiden with Saalegg. This is confirmed here as a burgrave in 1326 and 1330 . The next castellan is a Nycolaus on Saalegg, who had to pay dues to the bishopric for a house and the castle loan. Martin Gruttner is the owner around 1400; his Grundt estate and Saalegg Castle are listed together in the land register from then on. A message from the year 1606 about Saalegg Castle can be found on the floor arable of Lofer , because the owner of the Grundt farm (today Heitzmann) has to pay a certain amount because of the ruined Sallegg Castle , because the farmer confessed there owned a Peunten under the Purgckstall Saalegg .
Saalegg castle ruins today
All that remains of Saalegg is a tower wall, a water channel and other small remains of the wall. The castle stands on a steep rocky reef and can only be reached with climbing skills. But with the help of climbing ropes attached to roots and trees you can get to the ruin. You first reach a plateau of 4 × 3 meters at the northeast corner of the castle rock, from there you can access the actual castle via a ladder. This has a triangular floor plan of 20 meters in length and a base length of 10 meters on the east side. The main building of the castle was a rectangular tower with the dimensions of about 7.5 × 9.5 meters. A piece of wall (layered quarry stone masonry ) of about 7 meters has been preserved, as well as another 8 meter high part of its east side. In the middle of the wall, a simple light slit about 40 cm high has been preserved. The wall is 80 cm thick. The corners are made of hewn limestone blocks ; each layer of the masonry corresponds in height to the corner cuboid. A plan of the castle is available.
The legend of the Lamprechtsofenloch
There is a legend about the castle and the Lamprechtsofenloch, according to which the daughter of a knight Lambrecht did not hand over the treasure left by her father to the intended charitable foundations, but buried it in the Lamprechtsofen Cave. As a punishment, she has to wait here as a white virgin with her black cave dog. She waves to every hiker and tries to lure him to look with her at the great cave treasure of the knight's castle, which she - banished for eternity - has to guard.
This legend is said to have lured treasure diggers time and again, some of whom perished in the cave. Around 1700 a Bergloch visitation was ordered by the foreign people to bring money out . But the commission did not get very far on April 17, 1701, apart from a few eye stones they could not show anything. Therefore she came to the conclusion "that a junkh woman should be hidden with a joke that she is a lousy spargament (= nonsense)". In the 18th century, 14 skeletons were found in the cave, the places were marked with black crosses. Only with the cave explorer Anton von Posselt-Czorich (1854–1911) did the systematic exploration of the Lamprechtsofenhole begin in 1878.
literature
- Friederike Zaisberger & Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Pongau, Pinzgau, Lungau . Birch series, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85030-037-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plan of the Saalegg castle ruins ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 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.
- ↑ The Lamprechtsofenloch by Alois Eder
