Senftenberg castle ruins

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Senftenberg castle ruins
The Senftenberg castle ruins (right)

The Senftenberg castle ruins (right)

Creation time : 1197
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Senftenberg
Geographical location 48 ° 26 '56 "  N , 15 ° 33' 57"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '56 "  N , 15 ° 33' 57"  E
Senftenberg castle ruins (Lower Austria)
Senftenberg castle ruins

The Senftenberg castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle in the market town of the same name Senftenberg in northern Lower Austria in the Krems-Land district . The Burgruinenverein Senftenberg, which has leased the ruins for 100 years, has set itself the goal of renovating the castle ruins in recent years. The ascent to the ruin, which can be visited all year round, was made easier by a continuous road and a small car park on site.

history

View from the south

The castle and the family were first mentioned in a document dated April 26, 1197, in which a Rudegerus de Senftenberc was named as one of the witnesses. The builders of the initially planned hilltop castle were the Hochfrei von Lengenbach, who had also built and moved into several castles in Rehberg. However, they passed these on to their relatives, who then named themselves after Senftenberg and Minnenbach. The castle was owned by the Zebringers in the 13th century and belonged to the Wallseers in the 14th and 15th centuries . In the years 1407 to 1409 the castle was partially destroyed in the course of the guardianship feuds, but then rebuilt. At the time of the first Turkish siege of Vienna , the castle was a place of refuge for the population. It is also documented that around 1520 muggers regularly stayed in the castle. Attempts were made to storm the castle during the peasant wars towards the end of the 16th century. But it was not until 1645, during the Thirty Years' War , that it was captured and destroyed by Swedish troops under the leadership of General Torstenson and then fell into disrepair.

building

Have survived three gates, the square keep , a Schildungsmauer and a tower. The shielding wall, which is rather unusual for Austrian castles, and the tower, which has a rectangular base, an oval in the middle and a hexagonal shape in the last quarter, are striking.

literature

  • Wilfried Bahnmüller: Castles and palaces in Lower Austria. The 103 most beautiful excursion destinations . Berndorf, Kral-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-99024-001-4 , p. 149.
  • 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. 1080 .
  • Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces. 2 volumes. Vienna / Leipzig 1925, II, p. 20.
  • Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Brigitte Faßbinder: Castles and palaces between Krems, Hartenstein and Jauerling . Castles and palaces in Lower Austria 16 (birch row), St. Pölten / Vienna 1990, p. 118 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. 480 ff.
  • Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1966, p. 211.
  • Felix Halmer: Lower Austria's castles, a selection . Birkenverlag, Vienna 1956, p. 104 f.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages, floor plan dictionary . Würzburg 1994, p. 563.
  • Georg Clam-Martinic : Austrian Castle Lexicon. Linz 1992, ISBN 9783902397508 , pp. 189–190 ( online at Austria-Forum ).
  • Otto Piper : Austrian castles. Volume 4, Hölder, Vienna 1905, pp. 196–201 ( online at Munich Digitization Center ).
  • Thomas Kühtreiber (Ed.): The castles of Lower Austria. From Otto Piper. Partial reprint of the edition “Austrian Castles” 1902–1910, Edition Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503151-0-3 , p. 279.
  • Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3705605305 , p. 352 ff.
  • Ilse Schöndorfer: Stones and Legends - Burgruinen in Niederösterreich , 1st edition 1999, Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten / Vienna, ISBN 3-85326-114-0 , p. 102 ff.
  • Gerhard Stenzel : From castle to castle in Austria. 1973, p. 225.
  • Gerhard Stenzel: Austria's castles . Himberg 1989, p. 111.
  • Hans Tietze : The monuments of the political district Krems . Austrian Art Topography I, Vienna 1907, p. 380 f.
  • Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Modernae 1672. Reprint Graz 1976 VOMB, No. 117.

Web links

Commons : Senftenberg ruins  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Fux: Senftenberg. From mansion to health center. Self-published by the municipality of Senftenberg, Senftenberg 1995.
  2. Information about the Senftenberg castle ruins according to burgenkunde.at , accessed on March 7, 2010.