Burgstall Andorf

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Burgstall Andorf
Burgstall Andorf today

Burgstall Andorf today

Creation time : around 1140
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Andorf
Geographical location 48 ° 22 '50.6 "  N , 13 ° 34' 18.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '50.6 "  N , 13 ° 34' 18.8"  E
Burgstall Andorf (Upper Austria)
Burgstall Andorf

The Postal Andorf is located in the same municipality of Andorf in District Schärding of Upper Austria . The castle stable of the Höhenburg is located north of Andorf in the so-called Burgstallholz on a ledge that juts out in a north-westerly direction and drops steeply to the Pram .

history

It is believed that Andorf Castle was built on the ruins of a Roman fort. In 1140 Dietricus de Ammendorf is mentioned for the first time as a witness in a document from the Vornbach monastery . A document from the Reichersberg monastery also mentions Isinrich de Annendorf , his son Odalrich and again his son Wolfram around 1140 ; The names of Alewig , Hartwig , Ditmar , Rudiger and Walther von Ammedorf also appear here . Around 1200 Walchun de Andorf appears in a document from the St. Nicola monastery and around 1203 an Ulricus de Ammendorf . In the 14th century, but possibly already in the 12th century by Isinrich, Andorf came into the possession of the cathedral chapter of Passau . In 1768 Andorf came to Baron Ferdinand Rudolf von Pflacher .

Plan of the Andorf Castle Stable by Johann Ev. Lamprecht

Andorf Castle today

The castle was secured by arched walls and moats . From here you could see the Pram valley, the Mehsenbach valley and also partly the mountain range of the Sauwald . Three ditches surrounded the castle, the outermost being leveled to a field as early as 1850. From the Burgstall an underground corridor is to run south towards Andorf, but this may be an earth stable , the function of which is not clear.

A Meierhof built around 1358 , today's Opitz House , belonged to the castle . Anton Freiherr von Herbstheim died here in 1860.

The semicircular moat and the tower hill can still be seen from the castle stables. However, some areas of the former castle may already have plunged into the Pram flowing below.

literature

  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • Johann Ev. Lamprecht : Archaeological Forays transcribed by Josef Fischer. Upper Austria State Archives, Linz around 1880.
  • Josef Reitinger: The prehistoric and early historical finds in Upper Austria (=  series of publications of the Upper Austrian Museum Association . Volume 3 ). Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1968.
  • 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.

Web links

  • Walter Neweklowsky: Founders of the castles - noble families from Upper Austria (III). In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . 27th year, Linz 1973, p. 139 (entire article p. 130–159, online (PDF; 2.9 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Ev. Lamprecht, 1880.
  2. ↑ Christian K. Steingruber , 2013, p. 299.