Wessenstein castle ruins
| Wessenstein castle ruins | ||
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 Wall remains of the entrance area |
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| Creation time : | Late 12th / early 13th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Ministerials | |
| Construction: | Strictly layered quarry stone masonry made of Stainzer panels | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 54 '59 " N , 15 ° 12' 10" E | |
| Height: | 465 m above sea level A. | |
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The Wessenstein castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle in the municipality of Stainz ( Marhof district ) in the Deutschlandsberg district in Styria .
location
The remains of the castle are located south of Sauerbrunn in the Trog district on a ledge between the valley of the Stainzbach and the Theussenbach. They are located on lots 249/2, 249/4 and 251/4 of the cadastral community Trog at an altitude of 465 m above sea level. A.
history
The complex was probably built at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, the landlord at that time was the Lords of Wildon , a ministerial family of the Styrian rulers. The "Wessensteiner" are mentioned as servants of the Wildoners in the 13th century. In 1353 the castle was called "purckstall zu Webssenstein". For the time after the extinction of the Wessensteiners, which is assumed around the turn of the 13th to the 14th century, the abandonment and abandonment of Wessenstein Castle is also assumed.
It is believed that the name comes from the white stone from which the castle hill is partly made: This stone is a marble lens that is embedded here as a light, almost white crystalline marble in the otherwise dark Stainz slab gneiss massif. This deposit is approx. 20 to 30 m thick and was quarried until the 20th century in a quarry that belonged to the community and reached to the limits of the castle. Further mining of the rock would have endangered the existence of the castle complex.
investment
The castle was 100 by 35 meters in size. Only a few remains have been preserved. In the east and west, the castle was secured by two ditches , in the north and south the terrain slopes steeply into the valleys and did not require any additional security. The walls are about three feet thick. As the original entrance, a remnant of the castle gate has been preserved in the eastern part, which was later walled up (after an entrance was built via a flatter path in the west of the complex). The complex was surrounded by a curtain wall, of which only a few layers of stone have survived in some places. On the northern slope are the remains of a kennel , to the east below the castle are the remains of a farm .
The castle secured a road from Stainz via the Aiblwirt to the Pack and thus one of the routes across the Koralpe .
See also
literature
- Werner Murgg: Castle ruins in Styria. In: Nikolaus Hofer (Ed.): Find reports from Austria. Material booklet series B volume (FÖMat B 2, 2009). Published by the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Ground Monuments. Berger Verlag, Vienna 2009. ISSN 1993-1263 . Pp. 36-37.
- Bernhard Hebert: Find report. In: Find reports from Austria . Volume 24/25, years 1985/86. Published by the Federal Monuments Office . Berger Verlag, Vienna 1987. ISSN 1993-1263 p. 354.
- Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces in Styria. Part III. Graz, Leibnitz, West Styria. 2nd edition Vienna 1981 (1st edition 1967). P. 187 (the castle is called "Weissenstein" there).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Dudek: The Roman spring Sauerbrunn. In: Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau , June 12, 2020. 93rd Volume No. 24, p. 7.