Opposite castle ruins
| Opposite castle ruins | ||
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains, neck ditch | |
| Place: | Raabs an der Thaya | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 50 '37.4 " N , 15 ° 28' 3.9" E | |
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The ruins of the Gegenberg castle are the ruins of a hilltop castle in Raabs an der Thaya in Lower Austria . The remains of the late medieval castle are located about three kilometers west of Raabs in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel near the Czech border.
The remains of the wall stand on a rock about 30 meters above the Thaya near the rice mill. It is a small castle with an area of about 17 × 13 meters. There should have been a tower on the southwest corner, because there is a large pile of rubble there. The neck ditch carved out of the rock is still more than four meters deep today. The few remains of the wall that still exist today can be dated to the 13th century due to the wall technology.
history
In 1268 Ortolfus and Sifridus de Widerspach appear as witnesses in a document. The first mention refers to a stream. In the “Prima fundacio”, a property register of the Herzogenburg monastery from around 1300, “villa Gegenperkch” is mentioned, meaning a farm or a village. On the occasion of the foundation of a soul mass in the Jakobs Church in Raabs, a Herbort (Merbot) of the opposition occurs with other nobles in 1314. In 1340 a Wichard is documented, he is also mentioned at Lehnstein Castle. George the contradicting evidence with other nobles of the area 1364 and 1375 documents of the Eibensteiner. Towards the end of the 14th century, other members of the family owned foreign property or were looking for a livelihood elsewhere, for example in Kainraths near Waidhofen or in Steinbach near Großpertholz . In 1414/15 aristocrats from the Tyrnau dynasty sell their village of Seebs and Zehente there to “Ortolf the opposition ”. In 1493 it is called the "desolate contradiction", so the castle was already deserted. The village is likely to have lost its way at the same time and the last residents moved to the nearby Oberndorf near Raabs, because the former Gegberberg grounds have been cultivated by Oberndorf farmers as so-called "overland" since then.
literature
- Helmut Lindtner: Gegenberg . In: Aichinger-Rosenberger et al .: known and unknown about Raabs , Raabs 2009