Hohenstein Castle Stables

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Hohenstein Castle Stables
Location of the Hohenberg castle stable

Location of the Hohenberg castle stable

Castle type : Hilltop castle
Place: Engerwitzdorf- Hohenstein
Geographical location 48 ° 18 '19.6 "  N , 14 ° 25' 56.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '19.6 "  N , 14 ° 25' 56.2"  E
Burgstall Hohenstein (Upper Austria)
Hohenstein Castle Stables

The Postal Hohenstein is a Outbound hilltop castle in the same district of the municipality Engerwitzdorf in District Urfahr environment (near Hohenstein no. 2).

history

There are only guesses about the builders of the castle, but no reliable information. The castle was located in an area in which various noble families can be found. These included the Styrian Otakare in the south with the center of Steyregg and the Lords of Luftenberg , in the west the high-free Haselbachers with the center of St. Magdalena, in the north-west and north the Lords of Haunsberg were based in Riedegg , and in the east the area of ​​influence of the high-free from Katsdorf to Nockstein and Hohenstein. Each of these families could have given one of their knightly feudal people the order to build a castle.

The Hohensteiners are mentioned in the 12th century. This was a family that first appeared in documents at Hohenstein Castle near Gföhl in the Waldviertel around 1156. A document issued on January 7, 1281 confirms an exchange agreement between the Wilhering monastery and the Albero von Hohenstein for a farm to Mautzling (Maisling) and Veling (Felling). The following appear as seals: Leuthold von Kuenring, Gottschalk von Flacheneck, Otto von Tiernstein and others. a. This document proves that monasteries and aristocrats from the country above the Enns could have properties in the Waldviertel and vice versa. It is therefore conceivable that a branch of the Hohensteiners has moved from the Riedmark to the Waldviertel or moved from there to the Riedmark.

The first real written news about the Hohenstein area dates back to 1332. At that time, Jans von Kapellen and his housewife Kunigunde gave the Pulgarn Monastery some goods to support eight women, including the hat on the "holy stone" (= Hohenstein) . Ulrich I and Margaretha von Kapellen (1267-1301) had already owned this estate, and it came through their son Jans to his sons Ulrich IV and Eberhard I von Kapellen and, with their consent, to the Order of the Holy Spirit in Pulgarn. This farm is likely to be the Pentecost farmers, on whose grounds the castle stables and the church of St. Egidius are today. Another donation to the Pulgarn Monastery took place on June 24, 1342 with the donation of the forest on Hohenberg by Jans and Kunigunde von Kapellen and their sons Ulrich and Eberhard ( “our right inheritance, our wood located on Hohenberg and the whole mountain, all that Hohenberg means with all fairy tales ” ). This document shows that most of the area on and around the Hohenstein was in the hands of the Lords of Kapellen. There is no longer any talk of the Hohenstein Castle, presumably it had already been given up.

  • Filial church St. Aegidius
  • Stairway to the branch church of St. Aegidius
  • Filial church hl. Aegidius: Presumably the gate of Hohenstein Castle
  • Filial church hl. Aegidius: view from the south
  • Filial church hl. Aegidius: view from the north

Filial church of St. Giles

The early Gothic church consecrated to St. Aegidius was built from the stone material of the former castle chapel on the Holy Stone. This was expanded in the 14th century. A pillar-less, vaulted choir was added, the keystone of which is now used as a substructure for an offering box, and a sacristy was added. Towards the end of the 15th century, the church came to the parish church of Gallneukirchen . A document issued by the parish office in Gallneukirchen around 1519 states that nine farmers at Hohenstein had to deliver a toe to the main church in addition to the usual taxes in order to hold a weekly church service . There was also a small cemetery near the branch church, to which the field name "Freidhoffeld" still refers today . In the 17th century, the church was probably very dilapidated, so it was decided to renovate and convert it into a baroque style. This took place in 1680/81, as noted in the Passau diocese registers: “The branch church or chapel of St. Aegidius am Hohenstein, belonging to the parish church of Gallneukirchen, was destroyed by the injustices of the times and rebuilt and rebuilt in 1680/81. ” In the course of secularization by Emperor Josef II , the church came into the possession of the Pentecost farmer on Hohenstein in 1786, she is still privately owned by the Wall family today.

Burgstall am Hohenstein today

The ramparts and moats belonging to the Burgstall are heavily sanded; behind it rises a prominent rock hill, on which the church is located on the right when climbing over heavily weathered stone steps. On the northwest corner of the church wall, next to the church door, there is the so-called sacrificial stone, which, however, presumably served as a stop for the former castle gate due to its vertical bracing. To the north the rocky terrain rises here who was Palas of the former castle. Behind the rock pulpit, the rocks plunge steeply into the vineyard behind. The so-called Jägerstein was built by the Engerwitzdorf hunting company on the top of the small elevation.

In 1981 and 1982 excavations at the foot of the rock were carried out by Alfred Höllhuber , Franz Kranzler and Leopold Josef Mayböck . No investigation was carried out on the actual Burgplatz. Numerous Romanesque and early Gothic pottery shards from various vessels were found, and metal objects such as arrowheads, knives, spurs, hatchets and keys came to light. The discovery of a scallop shell was remarkable, as well as bones (including a pig and dog skull). The two coins found were a silver broad penny , struck in Enns around 1158, and a halfling around 1170.

There were also prehistoric artifacts, such as a fragment of a stone ax and a stone hand ax. Perhaps this explains the opinion that keeps cropping up that this is a pre-Christian cult - or at least a settlement site - the name on the holy stone also refers to this assumption. The old farmer Franz Wall (Pentecost farmer) also found some stone axes at the so-called Freidhoffeld. The found objects are owned by Upper Austria. State museum, individual objects (gold-plated bridle fittings) are in Upper Austria. Reichenstein Castle Museum on display.

There should be a desert to the south of the castle site .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janns von Capellen founds a monastery in Pulgarn and endows it with 40 pounds of Gülten to support 8 women . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 6, No. L, March 25, 1332, p. 59 ("hueb auf dem Heiligen Stain").
  2. ↑ Steingruber 2013, p. 347.