Wildeneck castle ruins (Upper Austria)

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Wildeneck (Wildenegg)
Wildenegg.JPG
Creation time : circa 1140
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Wall remains
Place: Oberhofen
Geographical location 47 ° 54 '50.8 "  N , 13 ° 17' 24"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '50.8 "  N , 13 ° 17' 24"  E
Height: 720  m above sea level A.
Wildeneck castle ruins (Upper Austria)
Wildeneck castle ruins
Display board at the castle ruins with a free attempt at reconstruction of Wildeneck Castle

The castle ruin Wildeneck , also Wildenegg , is the ruin of a spur castle on the western bank of the Irrsee in the Upper Austrian municipality of Oberhofen , on the eastern slope of the Kolomansberg . The castle was built in the 12th century. From 1611 or 1572 the castle was no longer inhabited and was left to decay.

history

Wildeneck Castle (also called Wildenegg, Wildenekke, Wildenek or castrum Wildenekk) was built by Rapoto I. von Ortenburg around 1140. His descendant Count Rapoto IV sold the castle in 1286 to the Dukes Stephan and Otto of Lower Bavaria. Their rule extended over the Mondsee monastery , the Mondsee region and the third of the Mondsee estates sold by the diocese of Regensburg to the Hochstift Salzburg in 1278, the so-called Salzburg land registry at Mondsee. In 1321 the Bavarian dukes agreed that Count Heinrich III. von Ortenburg regained possession of the Wildeneck rulership.

Around 1370 the Mondseeland was separated from the Bavarian district court Weilhart and its own Bavarian district court Wildeneck was created. It was subordinate to the Burghausen Rent Office . The castle was administered by keepers who also exercised the office of district judge. In 1390 the Archbishopric of Salzburg bought the Mattsee estate with Straßwalchen. As a result, the Mondseerland became an enclave separated from Lower Bavaria. The Lordship of Wildeneck was pledged several times by the Bavarian dukes. After 1462 the Mondsee Monastery was able to acquire the property as a pledge. In 1494 the rule was awarded to Wolfgang Kolberger , Count zu Neukolberg and Chancellor in Landshut. In 1506 the Mondseeland was bought by King Maximilian I and sold to the Archbishop of Salzburg in the same year. Maximilian I reserved a buyback right. In 1565 the stalls in the land above the Enns were able to buy back the Mondseeland. Because of the relocation of the regional court to Mondsee, the castle was given up in 1572, according to other sources not until 1611.

In 1678 the Mondsee Monastery bought the bailiwick and regional court rule and thus exercised high jurisdiction, also known as blood court or neck court; taxes were also levied by the monastery. In 1759 the Salzburg Urban Office was bought back by Regensburg. Up to this year, the subjects of the Mondsee region were obliged to serve two gentlemen: the princely caretaker of the governor of the district court Wildeneck and the manorial court judge of Mondsee, or the Salzburg officials. As early as the beginning of the 17th century, dual rule and the steadily increasing tax burden led to a tax boycott and peasant revolts (1611–1662) due to the poverty of the peasants, which the authorities put on the stake with brutal coercive measures (locking the rebellious peasants in the water tower Starvation) were suppressed. In 1662 peasants were also executed, expelled from the country or sentenced to life-long forced labor, a practice that is not known from neighboring bailiwicks (such as Hochfeld ).

Disputes continued for a long time because of multiple judicial rights. Only after the Treaty of Teschen (on May 13, 1779), which ended the War of the Bavarian Succession with Prussia, did the Innviertel finally become part of Austria. This ended the disputes over court and tax rights.

Wildeneck today

A steep climb leads to the ruin. The castle stood on a steep slope; on the access side it was protected by a deep ditch . There are only sparse remains of the former castle, such as a few wall sections of a tower in the surrounding wall . A drawbridge over the neck ditch can be assumed. There are a number of depressions on Burgplatz that indicate collapsed vaults.

The 45-minute hike to the ruins is advertised as an adventure trail (starting point at Gasthof Fischhof on the west bank of Lake Irrsee) for families.

The legend “The golden coach of the Countess of Wildeneck” is entwined around the ruin, which also expresses the disproportionality between the wealth of the rulers at that time and the enslaved subjects.

  • Wildeneck castle ruins: remains of the tower

  • Wildeneck castle ruins: overgrown wall section

  • Wildeneck castle ruins: Halsgraben

  • Ascent to the Wildeneck castle ruins

literature

  • Hertha Schober-Awecker : The rule Mondsee-Wildeneck. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Year 13, Linz 1959, pp. 355–381, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 3rd revised edition, Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
  • Siegfried Haider : History of Upper Austria. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3486540815 .
  • Sepp Voithofer: Straßwalchen. History of our homeland. Self-published by Marktgemeinde Straßwalchen, Straßwalchen 1988.
  • Eberhard Graf zu Ortenburg-Tambach: History of the imperial, ducal and counts' entire house of Ortenburg. Part 2: The Count's House in Bavaria . Rückert, Vilshofen 1932.

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Wildeneck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Legend of the Countess in Wildeneck [1]