Burgstall Turnertobl
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| Alternative name (s): | Turndobl, Turnerkogel, Eberstein | |
| Creation time : | (first documentary mention) | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Pernau, municipality of Kefermarkt | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 25 '51 " N , 14 ° 29' 57" E | |
| Height: | 694 m | |
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The Burgstall Turntobel (Turnerdobl, Turndobel, Turnerkogel) is the ruin of a nameless hilltop castle on the Turnertobl opposite the Steiningerberg. It is located about one kilometer northwest of Neumarkt in the Mühlkreis in the Pernau district between the Turner and Ebersteiner farmhouses (the latter farm is also believed to be a castle name) and belongs to the municipality of Kefermarkt . You can reach the Burgstall by walking the old salt path between Kefermarkt and Neumarkt to the saddle between Steiningerberg and Turntobel and turning west there. The path is completely overgrown in summer.
history
That this castle was no longer completed as a result of the castle building ban under King Ottokar II of Bohemia is likely to be an erroneous assumption. Stones, from the rough quarry to the fully hewn cuboid, including splitting, lie around. There is no certification. The name Turnerdobl is not a castle name, but a field name that refers to the Turnergut. The complex was dated to the first half of the 12th century or the 13th century.
The Turnerhof (Pernau 14), which gives it its name, is mentioned in the arable land of the Weinberg estate . The house name Turner goes back to the Middle High German form of tower (mhd. Turn) and refers to the tower that stood on the Bergkogel. In 1544 a Hanns Turner is called, in 1591 a Lorentz Turner from his hewn Turnguetl , in 1629 an Augustin Penz am Thurnergütl.
The property on the northern edge of the forest at height 694 is called "Freidhof" and indicates a burial site near the former castle.
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Turnertobl today
The Turnerdobl is a two-part system. At the highest point of the hilltop there is a weir system with a semicircular ditch and outer wall. Due to its simple structure, it was assumed that it could be an early medieval hill fort. In the center of the fortifications on the hilltop, a 12 × 12 m stone setting was found that can be interpreted as a substructure for a wooden structure. With regard to the upstream wall-ditch system, it was found that in some cases natural terrain was used; in other places, however, the trench had to be artificially carved to a depth of around 2.5 m. It could not be clarified whether the wall made of quarry stones was originally a solid wall.
On a rock spur, about 40 meters northeast of the summit, above the edge of the slope to a deep ravine, there is another (probably younger) weir system. It essentially consists of two side walls and a roughly 4.60 × 6.20 m large, rectangular tower, the walls of which have been preserved up to a height of about 2 m. On the south corner of the tower there is a two-shell masonry , which was filled with lime mortar and Klaubstein. What is interesting about the “tower castle” below is that it was apparently destroyed in a fire, at least there are massive traces of fire. But it must have been rebuilt. In any case, finds and findings indicate (at least) two-phase use of the fortified area on the rock spur.
Ceramic finds and some iron objects are kept in the Upper Austrian State Museum. After the excavation campaign, u. a. the residential or defense tower has been exposed. Today the rudiments are overgrown meters high with undergrowth, parts of the property have even been severely affected by new transport routes.
literature
- Hermann Affenzeller: History of the Neumarkt market in the Mühlkkreis and its surroundings . Self-published by the market town of Neumarkt i. M., Neumarkt 1954.
- Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual by Norbert Grabherr . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz.
- Josef Engelmann, Magdalena Stütz: Find reports from Austria. Volume 43, 2004, pp. 985-987.