Weyer castle ruins
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| Alternative name (s): | Weyerturm, Wihara, Wiare, Weihern, Weyerhofburg | |
| Creation time : | 1130 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, hillside location | |
| Conservation status: | Castle ruins | |
| Place: | Bramberg am Wildkogel municipality | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 15 '38.8 " N , 12 ° 19' 4.7" E | |
| Height: | 816 m above sea level A. | |
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The Weyer castle ruins , also called Weyerturm or Weyerhofburg , are the ruins of a hillside castle at 816 m above sea level. A. in the municipality of Bramberg am Wildkogel in the Zell am See district of the Pinzgau in the Salzburger Land (west of the town of Bramberg, approx. 25 meters above the Weyer estate). The tower is typical of the small castle complexes in Pinzgau, of which only the Felberturm in Mittersill has survived. The castle guarded the entrance to the Habach Valley , which was home to the only emerald deposit in Europe.
history
The first documentary mentions refer to the gentlemen von Weyer; Rapoto de Wiare (1130), Chunrad (1150), Haimo (1160) and Berthold (1169) are mentioned. The Chiemsee diocese seems to have taken possession of the castle around 1270 . It is still called a Gerhoch von Weyer, but this last offspring from the Weyerer family was already a feudal man of the Chiemsee bishops. He was followed by Walther von Neukirchen around 1290. In 1454 Florian Stuhlfelder received the tower as a fief with his housewife and two sons . He is prescribed to erect his own building in the courtyard of the castle and to raise the tower by one storey at the expense of the bishop and to decorate it with a bay window. When the bishop comes to visit during his hunting trips in Oberpinzgau, he was to be accommodated and looked after by the feudal takers. The sons of Stuhlfeld received the tower on inheritance . From 1504 to 1519 Gregor and Erasmus Mandl von Steinfels are shown as fiefs under inheritance law. This is followed by Ludwig Lebenauer (1519), pastor of Bramberg, Christian Plank zu Büchl (1533) and Karl and Wilhelm Jocher (1570).
The later owner Nikolaus Ainöder therefore moved to the more comfortable Meierhof , the so-called Weyerhof, located on the street, but the tower had to be kept as a living space for the bishop. At the beginning of the 17th century, Nikolaus Ainöder bought himself exempt from the maintenance obligation, but in return had to grant the bishop accommodation in the Weyerhof. Since 1628 the owners of the Weyerhof, to which the tower still belongs, are the families Liebenberger, Severin Senninger (1671), Rottmayr (1691), Schmerold (1732) and Schachner. Severin Senninger came to the Weyerhof by marriage and set up the prince's rooms here from 1669 to 1671.
In 1733 Maria Magdalena Schachner married the merchant Georg Hofer from Mittersill, his great-granddaughter Margaret brought the estate and the tower into the marriage with Peter Meilinger. The Meilinger family still owns the property today.
The Weyerhof and its princely rooms were completely destroyed in 1940. The two paneled Renaissance rooms would have been lost anyway, as the Gau Salzburg wanted to give them to Adolf Hitler as a gift, they were to be built into the Berghof on the Obersalzberg, where they would not have survived the end of the war. The Weyerhof itself was rebuilt in the old style soon after the fire. Before the end of the Second World War, it was used as a salvage site for numerous art treasures in the Vienna Art History Museum for a few days , including works by Rembrandt, Breughel, Dürer, Tizian and Raffael Santi.
Weyer castle ruins today
To the east of the Weyerturm there are still foundations of an almost square building that was once connected to the also square tower by a wall. The tower (floor plan 14 by 10 meters) is only slightly raised from the slope by a shallow depression. To the south the tower was secured by a steep slope, to the north there was a shallow ditch, which was followed by a pond (hence the name).
The outer walls of the tower at a height of 16 m have been preserved. In the basement, the building is made of layered masonry with stone blocks. Inside, the beam holes for the previously existing wooden ceilings can be seen. According to this, the building had seven floors. A protruding wooden battlement , which was covered by a tent roof, probably ran around the top floor . The entrance was formed by a gate that was first on the first floor, this was bricked up today and replaced by an entrance on the third floor. Small window openings can still be seen on the south side. On the west side, a round-arched door, which is surrounded by four beam holes, suggests the former bay window.
A Romanesque chapel extending over two floors can be seen in the tower on the east side; it still has a semicircular apse with a round arched window looking towards the former courtyard. Remnants of the old plaster with traces of simple painting are still preserved. Above the abandoned chapel, two narrow flights of stairs from the fourth to the sixth floor have been preserved.
The Weyerhof is a popular restaurant today. The tower ruin, on which trees were already growing, was secured and restored from 1992. The tower is freely accessible.
A legend has grown up around the ruins, according to which poor boys were given gold treasures.
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literature
- Georg Clam Martinic: Castles and palaces in Austria. Landesverlag in Veritas Verlag, Linz 1991, ISBN 3-85001-679-1 .
- Friederike Zaisberger , Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Pongau, Pinzgau, Lungau . Birch series, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85030-037-4 .
Web links
- Weyer castle ruins (Weyerhofburg)
- Weyer castle ruins on Wehrbauten.at
- Entry via Weyerturm and Weyerhof to Burgen-Austria
- Weyer castle ruins at weyer.de.com
- WEYERTURM
- Weyerturm on ruins empire
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Weyerturm ( 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.
- ↑ WEYERTURM
- ^ Homepage Weyerhof
- ↑ The legend of the Weyer ruins. ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2013 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.
