Burgstall Aigelsberg
| Aigelsberg Castle | ||
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.jpg) Burgstall Aigelsberg today |
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| Creation time : | 1170 (first documented mention) | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Niederwaldkirchen- Steinbach | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 28 '33.6 " N , 14 ° 5' 30.1" E | |
| Height: | 570 m | |
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The castle Aigelsberg is an Outbound hilltop castle on 570 m above sea level. NN in the Steinbach district of the Niederwaldkirchen municipality in the Rohrbach district of Upper Austria ; the remains of the castle are about 1.1 km north of the Steinbach castle ruins and about 0.25 km northwest of the Aigelsberger property.
history
The information about Aigelsberg is sparse and it is also uncertain whether they actually refer to this seat:
It can be assumed that the Aigelsbergers were the builders of the castle. In 1170 Kunigunde von Blankenburg ( Planchenburch ) donated her property to the St. Nikola monastery . In 1322 the castle was owned by a During (Durich) von Aigelsberg, who appears as a witness on a document from Gundacker von Starhemberg . In 1337 Aigelsberg was owned by Heinrich IV, who in turn was a son of Seibold I von Schweinbach. Then Aigelsberg came to his son Thomas. On May 4th 1367, Fridreich the Swarcz sent his free property "dacz gesäzz dacz Aygilsperge sampt dem Pawhof" to the brothers Fridreich, Rudolf and Heinrich von Walsee and received it back as a fief .
On July 25, 1387, Fridreich der Swarcz zu Aigelsperg was feuding with Hainrich the Stainpekch zu Stainpach. A Hanns Ludmanstorffer zu Aigelsperg is mentioned in a document dated May 1, 1417, Johann Seyfrid Hager von Allentsteig auf Aigelsperg on March 30, 1671. In 1339 the castle was owned by Jörg Aigelsberg, who also owned Zellhof Castle . He also owned various goods in the Waxenberg estate, which he sold to Gundacker von Tannberg in 1402. A Georg Aigelsberg hands over several tithe in Linz in 1418 ; it is considered the last of his family.
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Aigelsberg castle ruins today
The plant was on a high level. Today the castle site is overgrown by trees and undergrowth. In the 1960s, a meter-long, low stone wall could still be seen at the castle site, with another surrounding wall in front of it. Today there are only sparse remains, perhaps also a few hewn stones.
It was claimed that the complex was completely removed in 1956, that the stones of the walls were broken into gravel and used for road construction. But about 0.2 km northwest of the Aigelsberger farm, the substructure of the Aigelsberg headquarters (remains of the wall, collapsed cellars) is still clearly visible today.
The complex is not a listed building.
literature
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ pers. Communication from Christian Steingruber dated April 30, 2013.