Tannberg castle ruins
| Tannberg castle ruins | ||
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 Tannberg castle ruins today |
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| Creation time : | 1188 (first documented mention) | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Hörbich municipality | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 30 '6.6 " N , 13 ° 56' 19.9" E | |
| Height: | 446 m above sea level NN | |
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The Tannberg castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 446 m above sea level. NN in the district of the same name in the municipality of Hörbich in the Rohrbach district of Upper Austria on the right bank of the Kleine Mühl (Tannberg No. 6).
history
The ancestor of the eponymous family was probably Sigibot Tannberg , who was already at the end of the 11th century as a steward of the Passau monastery . The builder of the castle is likely to have been the Passau ministerial Walter I von Tannberg in 1188 . When the Passau ministerials rose against the bishop in 1240, Walter and Pilgrim von Tannberg were on the side of the bishop. The Partenstein Castle was pledged from Passau to the wife of Kunigunde des Pilgrim . Berthold and Chunrad I († 1278, buried in the Marienkirche in Sarleinsbach ) are also mentioned. The coat of arms of the Tannberg family goes back to Berthold (a three-mountain, the middle hill of which rises as a peak). One Konrad von Tannberg was accused of deliberately calling out feuds together with his brother-in-law Kalhoch von Falkenstein and both of them making the paths unsafe from their castles; therefore both were condemned in 1281 by the dukes of Bavaria and their liege lord, the Passau bishop Wichard von Pohlheim, to compensate for the damage he had caused, otherwise they would be declared dishonorable and lose their lives. In his feud against Duke Heinrich of Bavaria , Duke Albrecht I of Austria conquered the castles Falkenstein and Tannberg in 1289. The Tannbergers remained in their fiefdom.
In 1327 Kunrad von Tannberg praised Duke Friedrich III. of Austria to serve him with his castle. This last Tannberger living here († 1356) appointed his feudal lord, the Bishop of Passau, to inherit the castle and the rule of Tannberg in 1354. His brother Gundacker von Tannberg had already come into the fiefdom of Pürnstein in 1338 . The bishops of Passau then had Tannberg administered by carers (Alber von Jagenreuter, 1390; Heinrich der Mühlwanger, 1401) or pledged the castle if they were in financial need, for example to Chunrad von Tannberg (1366-1374) or Dankwart Herleinsperger ( 1430 and 1443). After the redemption, Passau used nurses again, according to Achaz Premser. The last keeper at the castle was Wolf Herleinsperger in 1529.
In 1529 the administration of Tannberg, as well as that of the other possessions of the Passau diocese in the Mühlviertel , was transferred to Marsbach . The now functionless castle was left to decay. On the engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674, Tannberg is already a ruin, whereby the two deep moats can still be seen, through which the castle was protected from the land side.
Tannberg castle ruins today
The former farm buildings of the castle, the so-called Pflegerstöckl (with Gothic window frames and high struts) and the lower tower, have been converted into a farmhouse. The side of the tower facing the Kleiner Mühl is still made of stone blocks. With the exception of the curtain wall , the buildings on the stronghold have fallen into disrepair or been demolished. On the Burgplatz, rubble mounds, along with a few walls, give an idea of the former stronghold. The once deep trenches have been partially filled in.
The lower castle together with the Gothic gate was converted into a residential building.
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 2: Innviertel and Alpine foothills . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1964.
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz 2013.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Steingruber, 2013, p. 264.