Stolzenwörth castle ruins
| Stolzenwörth castle ruins | ||
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Puchberg am Schneeberg | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 48 '5 " N , 15 ° 57' 40" E | |
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The location of Stolzenwörth Castle , the seat of the Lords of Stolzenwörth in Lower Austria , has not yet been definitively determined by archaeological research.
The older literature of the 19th and 20th centuries assumed that Stolzenwörth Castle was located on the Romaikogel, a small hill in what is now Puchberg am Schneeberg . The latest investigations allow the existence of a system on the Romaikogel, but deny it the name Stolzenwörth. In fact, the Stolzenwörth castle site is likely to be on the " Hausstein ".
The house stone in the cadastral community of Stolzenwörth , whose name can be traced back to the rule of the same name, is a small rock on the border with the local community of Grünbach am Schneeberg, northwest of the Klaus am Grünbacher Sattel . In the late 1950s, Franz Hampl , one of Austria's most important prehistorians , carried out a test excavation at the foot of the Hausstein, which unearthed prehistoric and medieval material.
Based on dated archaeological finds, the only fortification that can be proven before 1100 was the Hausstein as a possible seat of the Lords of Stolzenwörth / Grünbach in the Puchberg valley basin.
Reign of Stolzenwörth
The first documentary mention was made around 1180 with a Heinricus de Stolzenwerde, although the Stolzenwörther family is not mentioned in the documents of the Babenbergs , who were margraves and dukes in this area from 976 to 1246. In contrast, on November 16, 1298 , the Nuremberg burgrave issued a fiefdom letter to "Ulrichen von Perigow", the husband of "Hedwich von Stolzenberd". It follows that Stolzenwörth and everything that went with it was already a fiefdom.
The rulership of the Pergauer family passed to the Hohenfelder. After that, the area changed hands several times together with the Schrattenstein and Rothengrub castles until it finally came to the Hoyos family by letter of purchase dated May 23, 1556 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Falko Daim , Elisabeth Ruttkay : The excavations of Franz Hampel on the "Hausstein" near Grünbach am Schneeberg, Lower Austria. In: Archaeologia Austriaca. 65, 1981, pp. 35-51.
- ↑ Thomas Kühtreiber : A late medieval stirrup from the "Römerstrasse" / Weinfurt, Gem. Schwarzau / Gebirge, Lower Austria. In: Contributions to medieval archeology in Austria. Supplement 6, 2003, p. 237.
- ^ Sheets of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, New Series, Volume II, 1868, p. 182.