Castle ruins Lind
| Castle ruins Lind | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Oberlind, Unterlind | |
| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castles | |
| Conservation status: | ruins | |
| Place: | Kleblach-Lind -Lind | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 45 '58.1 " N , 13 ° 21' 38.3" E | |
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The castle ruins Lind - a distinction must be made between the two dilapidated structures Oberlind and Unterlind - are located on the right bank of the Drau above the village of the same name in the municipality of Kleblach-Lind in Carinthia .
history
A property in Lind ( curtiferum in loco Linta ) is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation from Brixen from 1065/77 . The lords of Lind are for the years 1141 to 1452 as a fief taker as ortenburgische proven vassals. An explicit mention of the (upper) castle is only documented for the end of 1252, when Count Albert III. Elect Philipp, son of the Carinthian Duke Bernhard von Spanheim , pledged the castrum Lint . From 1304 Lind was owned by the County of Gorizia . In 1348, Lind was expressly referred to as “festivals”, and a deed dated March 15, 1429 stipulated the enfeoffment of “vest Lind”.
The Lords of Lind sat on Oberlind, Unterlind was the seat of the judges of the Lind rule. For the year 1324, for example, a Perchtold von Lind is mentioned, who in 1330 is called "the old judge of Lint".
When exactly the upper castle was abandoned is not known, at least by the time of Valvasor both structures were already in ruins. When Hans Jakob von Lind sold his share of the Lind Christof von Leobenegg estate in 1642, he was already in the valley on Raggnitz .
The family eventually expired in 1843 in the male line. In the choir of the Lind parish church in the Drautal , the tombstone of the knight Bernhard von Lind and his son Niklas reminds of the noble family living in Lind Castle.
Building description
Unterlind
The remains of Unterlind are now integrated into the calvary on a hill above the village. From the parish church, a slightly ascending way of the cross of block-like wayside shrines , probably built in the first half of the 19th century, leads up to the Maria Hilf chapel . This church, donated as a castle chapel in 1347, is located in the immediate vicinity of the remains of the wall of the Unterlind complex, which was probably built in the 13th century. The six-meter-high walls of a tower that protrudes from the octagon on five sides have been preserved from it. These serve today as part of the Calvary as a retaining wall and in the upper part the enclosure of the forecourt of the large crucifixion group. About five meters behind, the remainder of a four-meter high wall in Romanesque ashlar masonry has been preserved when it fell into the ditch.
In a depiction of Pernhart it can be seen that the tower was almost completely preserved in the middle of the 19th century. The upper floors had arched windows.
Oberlind
Oberlind Castle was situated high above the Kalvarienberg on a rocky plateau on the hillside of the Guggenbichl. It is separated from the lower system by a gorge. From the facility are remnants of the keep received, such as a wall rest on the rocky outcrop, which is now only 14 meters long and five meters wide. The original area was larger, but apparently crashed with the rocky subsoil. A wall tongue of a gate system can be seen on the south side, from which the other parts have also slipped. On the east side there is a four meter high wall made of rubble blocks.
See also
literature
- Dehio Carinthia 2001 . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 451.
- Hermann Wiessner, Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka: Castles and palaces in Carinthia. Volume 3. Hermagor, Spittal / Drau, Villach. Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1986, 2nd edition, without ISBN, p. 78 ff.