Wimberg ruins
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 Castle hill of the ruins of Wimberg from the east |
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| Alternative name (s): | Neuhauser Burgstall | |
| Creation time : | 9th to 10th centuries | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, castle hill, wall remains | |
| Place: | Wernstein am Inn | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 29 '54.3 " N , 13 ° 27' 5.6" E | |
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The Wimberg ruin , also known as Neuhauser Burgstall , is an abandoned fortification of indefinite age on the Austrian bank of the Inn at the entrance to the Vornbacher Enge . It is located in the municipality of Wernstein am Inn in the Schärding district in Upper Austria .
history
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The Neuhauser Burgstall was a weir system that cordoned off large plateaus and is therefore known as the “plateau edge castle ”. The complex can be dated to the end of the early Middle Ages (9th – 10th centuries). Similar systems must be proven in neighboring Lower Bavaria . The pastor and archaeologist Johann Ev. Lamprecht had recorded the dimensions of this weir system in a plan around 1880. In his description of the fortification, Lamprecht reports that it was an outpost of Neuburg am Inn Castle . It also gives a temporal classification, namely that the complex was still well preserved in the 15th century and guarded by its own castle keepers and fell into disrepair from the 16th century. Findings from the castle hill (key, lance tip, iron ball) also speak in favor of using the facility in the late Middle Ages.
In the local castle literature, the weir system is mentioned as Wimberg Castle . Norbert Grabherr (1976) suspects it, like Lamprecht, to be part of a chain of fortifications from Schloss Neuburg am Inn on the now Austrian side of the Inn . She is said to have stood on a protruding ledge near the Inn. Reference is made to a Heinricus de Wineberge who is mentioned around 1230 as evidence .
According to Hille (1975), Wimberg is named after Eppo von Wimberg from the Vormbacher family. He was married to the widow and heiress von Waltenstein in his second marriage. In the 11th and 12th centuries, Wimberg is said to have been owned by the brothers Ulrich and Hermann von Vormbach, and around 1100 a Count Hermann I von Windberg is mentioned, whose wife again came from the Vormbach family. The castle is said to have been inhabited by her sister Luitgard, who was married to Askurin von Bogen. From this marriage two children (Berchtold and Albert I) sprouted.
According to recent research, however, it is not possible to clearly assign the defense system to a documented noble family.
In the 20th century, parts of the area of the weir system fell victim to the progressive quarrying of the Kapsreiter company . Today the quarry is closed.
Surname
The original name of the weir system cannot be determined with certainty due to the lack of clearly identifiable documents. The name Wimberg comes from the village of the same name, almost 1 km to the east, while the name Neuhauser Burgstall is derived from the Neuhauser farm (Wimberg No. 5) located 300 m to the south-west .
description
Today, the core of the weir system lies right on the edge of the demolition edge of the former quarry and is separated from the eastern hinterland by an outer and an inner semicircular ditch . Lamprecht mentions another, outer ditch that was largely leveled through agricultural use and is covered with meadows. No trace of this third trench has survived today.
The castle hill itself is made of mighty natural granite blocks. Only on the east side of the core plant are sparse remains of the wall.
Outer trench
Inner ditch with quarry in the background
Castle hill from the north
Castle hill from the east with remains of walls
Wall remains in detail
Castle hill of the ruin Wimberg
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literature
- Marianne Pollak: The castle stable of Pfaffstätt in the southern Innviertel. Dormant castles of the late early Middle Ages in Upper Austria. In the Archaeological Working Group East Bavaria / West and South Bohemia, 16th meeting in Plzen-Krimice, 21. – 24. June 2006.
- Marianne Pollak and Wilhelm Rager: "In villa Antesna" . In: Der Bundschuh, Vol. 4, pp. 5–15, Verlag Moserbauer, Ried im Innkreis 2001. ISBN 3-902121-08-4
- Eduard Wiesner (ed.): Wernstein am Inn. A home book . Eduard Wiesner, Wernstein 1985.
- 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 . Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Johann Ev. Lamprecht : Archaeological expeditions and investigations of various walled sites in the lower Innviertel. Manuscript in Upper Austria. Landesmuseum, no location and no year (approx. 1880).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Marianne Pollak: The castle stable of Pfaffstätt in the southern Innviertel. Dormant castles of the late early Middle Ages in Upper Austria. In the Archaeological Working Group East Bavaria / West and South Bohemia, 16th meeting in Plzen-Krimice, 21. – 24. June 2006.
- ↑ Lamprecht, p. 2, Tab. A, Fig. IIII.
- ^ Lamprecht, p. 12
- ↑ Wiesner, p. 158, illustration of the finds p. 159
- ↑ Pollak / Rager, Der Bundschuh, Vol. 4, p. 7
- ↑ Lamprecht p. 12