Burgstall Hochkuchl
| Burgstall Hochkuchl | ||
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 Burgstall Hochkuchlberg |
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| Creation time : | 1146 (first documented mention) | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, small remains | |
| Place: | Lohnsburg municipality | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 7 '58.1 " N , 13 ° 31' 53.2" E | |
| Height: | 723 m above sea level A. | |
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The castle Hochkuchl is an Outbound hilltop castle at 723 m above sea level. A. on the Hochkuchl mountain in the district Hochkuchl the municipality of Lohnsburg in Ried im Innkreis District of Upper Austria near the mountain tops of Hochkuchl mountain. In the case of the Hochkuchlberg of the same name near Pattigham , which is also believed to be the seat of the Kuchlers , no castle stalls could be found.
history
This was probably the first residence of the Kuchler family before the brothers Konrad III. and Hartneid II from this family were able to acquire Friedberg and Mattighofen from the Bamberg diocese in 1377 . It can be assumed that this was an early medieval complex, which was possibly built to protect against the Magjars and which the Kuchlers continued to use in the High Middle Ages.
In 1146 an Eppo de Hohenchuchin is mentioned, in 1165 a Heinrich, 1179 an Eberhard, 1200 a nobuilis Otto de Hochhuch, 1204 a Gottschalchus de Chiuchil and 1228 a Heinricus Chuocheler. These appeared as witnesses in the basic transactions of the Vormbach , Reichersberg and Admont monasteries . In 1363 the Friedburger Urbar refers to the possession of the Kuchler near Lohnsburg. The Kuchler are named as participants in the tournaments in Cologne (1179) and Zurich (1165). At the end of the 13th century they included high officials of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . Konrad II was a captain during the Bavarian-Austrian peasant uprising. In 1403 Hohenkuchl received jurisdiction. The last Kuchler should have been Konrad IV.
- Burgstall Hochkuchlberg
Summit cross on the Hochkuchlberg
Depressions in the Burgstall Hochkuchlberg
Hochkuchl castle ruins today
Today a rampart-like weir system can still be seen on a hilltop of the Hochkuchlberg not far from the summit cross. Two pits within the ring wall can be interpreted as cisterns. The former castle is impaired by a forest road that goes around the weir system.
literature
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 3. Edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
- 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 by Norbert Grabherr . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz.
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch : The Kuchler - an important ministerial family from the 12th to 15th centuries. In: Museumsverein Kuchl (ed.): The Georgenberg. Kuchl 2014, ISBN 978-3-200-03594-2 , p. 107.