Haimburg
| Haimburg | ||
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 Heunburg in Haimburg |
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| Alternative name (s): | Huneburch, Heunburg | |
| Creation time : | around 1070 to 1103 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | Preserved essential parts | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Völkermarkt- Haimburg | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 41 '33 " N , 14 ° 40' 13" E | |
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The Haimburg , often also called Heunburg , is the ruin of a rock castle on an isolated rock in the village of the same name Haimburg in the municipality of Völkermarkt in Carinthia .
history
The castle was first mentioned in 1103 as Huneburch . The Counts of Heunburg have been known by name since 1070. In the 12th and 13th centuries they were an important family for the history of Carinthia , but died out in the male line in 1322.
Their heirs were the Counts of Pfannberg , whose last representative Johann died in 1362. The castle came to the Counts of Görz in 1362, and to the Habsburgs in 1460 after the Peace of Pusarnitz .
Where the Diexer Bach swings into the plains of the picturesque Jaun Valley, the Heunburg or Huneburch, first mentioned in a document around 1070, rises on a block of slate. Located in the heart of that power center, which after the migration of peoples stretched south of the Drau from Griffen to Brückl, Haimburg is a remarkable cultural and historical center with finds from the Neolithic as well as from the Celtic and Roman times. Here you can find evidence of the mixing of the local population with Teutons and Slavs. To protect them from the Avars, castles like the Heunburg were built. The Heunburg counts, originally from Saxony, who built the Heunburg around 1000 as their ancestral castle, previously used the Rauterburg from the Carolingian era (9th / 10th century) to the northwest of Haimburg and became one of the most powerful families in Carinthia in the 13th century, until Ulrich III. von Heunburg was defeated by the Habsburgs in the Battle of Wallersberg in 1293. From the 14th century, the Lords of Sanneck (gospodje Žovneški) and then the Counts of Cilli (Celjske grofje) inherited the Heunburger. Your coat of arms, the three gold stars on a blue background, traveled the same route and can now be found in the national coat of arms of the Republic of Slovenia.
From 1990 the castle, which is privately owned, was repaired by the association Rettet die Heunburg . From 1995 to 2009, theater performances by the Theater klas took place in the castle in the summer . The Heunburg Theater has been performing in the castle in the summer months since 2011 .
investment
The gate tower and parts of the palace are still preserved in their original state. To the west of the complex is the former chapel dedicated to St. Alexius was consecrated.
See also
literature
Dehio. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1981, p. 213 f., ISBN 3-7031-0522-4 .
Web links
- Entry via Haimburg (Heunburg) to Burgen-Austria
- The Heunburg
- The theater on the Heunburg