Burgstall Gschrift

Burgstall Gschrift
Burgstall Gschrift with the eponymous "Schrofen"
Alternative name (s):	Hessenburg
Creation time :	unknown
Conservation status:	small remains of the wall
Standing position :	Ministerials
Place:	Eisenberg
Geographical location	47 ° 35 '38 "  N , 10 ° 36' 39"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '38 "  N , 10 ° 36' 39"  E
Height:	830  m above sea level NN

"Gschrifter" property before the demolition, the castle hill on the right

Sketch by Barthel Eberl, 1942

The Burgstall Gschrift is located in the municipality of Eisenberg in the Ostallgäu district . It was the residence of a ministerial family .

history

The early history of the Gschrift castle stable is completely in the dark. Not a single one of the family of servants living here is known by name.

The small castle probably originally belonged to the "Hessians in the Tusch", who sat in the nearby Oberdeusch Castle . The Burgstall in Gschrift is also called “Hessenburg” in later documents and an associated wooded area is still called “Hessenwald”. While the small lordship of Oberdeusch gradually came to the St. Mang monastery in Füssen from 1401 , the lords of Freyberg on Eisenberg were able to secure the property in Gschrift. In 1467, when the Freyberg-Eisenberg rule was divided, the "Burglin called the Gschrifft with its belonging" fell to Wilhelm von Freyberg zu Eisenberg.

Since the lower aristocratic residence had long since become insignificant, the Freybergers awarded the Gschrift to subjects who ran an agriculture here. In 1598 a Gallus Teschler is mentioned in the "Schryfft". From 1647 the owners of "Schloss und Burgstall" Gschrift can be completely proven. At first they all probably lived in the ruins on the castle hill. In 1779, Johann Holl passed away here . At the auction in 1781, Leopold Holl von Unterreuten undertook to let the former owners live in the “dilapidated old house” and to build “a completely new house” within 15 years. This new building below the hill, possibly on the site of an old building yard, was started by Andreas Niggel from wood. In 1788 he then exchanged the Gschrift for the old and the new "unfinished" house at Anton Kögel von Holz.

In 1961, Josef Waibel sold his property in Gschrift to the Federal Property Administration , which had an ammunition depot built here for the Füssen barracks. The castle hill of the Gschrift was not destroyed during the construction of the bunkers on the extensive site.

In the meantime, the ammunition store has been closed again and the bunkers have been filled in with the overburden created during the construction of the motorway. The area, which is still fenced in, is currently not accessible.

description

The Burgstall Gschrift stood in a wooded area on a sandstone block about 10 meters high, which has a plateau with the dimensions of about 15 by 15 meters. Until the middle of the 19th century, parts of the former castle were barely habitable. Now there are only small remains of the surrounding wall in a few places. In the south-east corner, the Allgäu castle researcher Dr. Otto Merkt put up a memorial stone around 1935. It bears the inscription: "The old castle stable and Gschrüfft castle, also mentioned in 1600 and 1675".

The castle site, which is lined with bushes and trees, slopes steeply on all sides. The access will have been in the north-west corner. At the opposite corner, the rock clearly emerges from the surface. The rock is very rugged. This led to the name Gschrift (place where there are numerous crevices in the rock).

As a result of the construction work for the ammunition store, nothing remains of the ramparts of the outer bailey, which were sketched in 1942, not even of the former "Gschrifter", the property of Josef Waibel.

literature

• Thaddäus Steiner: Historical book of place names of Bavaria, Volume 9 Füssen, Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7696-6861-8 , p. 59.
• Bertold Pölcher: House history Eisenberg, district Gschrift, 2010 (not printed)
• Files on the inspections in 1933 and 1942 in the Allgäu Castle Archive in Merkt, Kempten City Archive

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Gschrift  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Eisenberg Castle Museum

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Urbar" Freiberg-Eisenberg-Hohenfreiberg from 1735, in the Hopferau archive (Füssen town archive)
2. ^ Contract of division in the Hopferau archive (Füssen town archive), 2nd registry volume, 49
3. ^ State archive Augsburg Adel von Freyberg 54 (letter of division of the Eisenberg rule 1598)