Burgstall Mühlberg (Eugendorf)

Defense tower and church in Mühlberg (1770)

Remains of the Mühlberg castle stables

The lost Burgstall Mühlberg (Eugendorf) was located in the district Mühlberg of the municipality of Eugendorf in the state of Salzburg . In the immediate vicinity of the castle stables is the St. Leonhard branch church in Mühlberg , which was originally an aristocratic church (today: Am Mühlberg 3).

history

Below the Mühlberg, the old court border ran between the Altentann , Lichtentann and Neuhaus foster families . Around 1180 a Volmar von Mühlberg is mentioned as a witness when Hartwig von Seekirchen handed over the property to the Raitenhaslach monastery . The Mühlbergers were probably followers (so-called single-shield knights) of the Lords of Kalham .

Between 1355 and 1679 three priests lived in Mühlberg. They lived in the old fortified tower, also known as the “box”, until 1520, when they moved to the farm next door. The Mühlberg estate was subsequently sold to aristocrats; only a senior priest remained here as a fair reader. In 1785 the Mühlbergut from the inheritance of Franz von Aman was auctioned off and the property became a rural property. First the Wendlinger family lived here, and since 1892 the Plackner family. On New Year's Day 1801, French soldiers stormed Mühlberg and the church; Since they did not find any sacristy treasures, the farmer Monika Wendlinger and three of her four children were poisoned in response.

Memorial plaque to those of the Wendlinger family who were killed in the French Wars

Until the basic discharge , the corresponding patent for Austria dates from September 7, 1848, the Mühlberggut was subject to tax at the Seekirchen collegiate monastery .

Burgstall Mühlberg today

Around 1850 the defense tower disappeared together with the connecting wing to the church gallery. Remnants of a wall are barely recognizable below the St. Leonhard Church. The existence of a fortification at this location is suggested by an oil painting from 1770, which shows a slender fortified tower and a curtain wall next to the church. This was presumably three-story and covered with a pyramid roof. The building probably later served as a residential building for the Seekirchen pastors; it was connected to the church by a wing through which one came directly to the church tower or to the gallery. The picture that used to be seen in the Church of St. Leonhard can no longer be found today.

literature

• Bernd Huber: Under the protection of Rupert and Virgil - The castles and fortifications in the Salzburg Archbishopric. Volume 1: Flachgau - Upper Austria . Österreichischer Milizverlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-901185-65-6 , pp. 90–91.
• Friederike Zaisberger & Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Flachgau and Tennengau. Birch series, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85326-957-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ One-step knights on Medieval Lexicon ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Hans Kudlich: Basic discharge
3. ^ Church of St. Leonhard on Salzburgwiki

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 47.4 "  N , 13 ° 7 ′ 16.6"  E