Hard (desert)

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The Hard is a medieval desert near Thaya in Lower Austria , which is the only one in Austria that has been completely excavated.

location

The desert is located four kilometers east of Thaya in the Hardwald .

history

Presumably in the early 12th century, a two-room stone tower house was built in a spring basin in the Hardwald, in the vicinity of which iron processing could also be demonstrated. This house, also known as Kleinhard , was abandoned around 1230/40. In a second, larger clearing start around 1250, the village of Hard emerged from ten dry stone farms , with five farms lining one side of the narrow Angers. The focus was the already mentioned spring at the entrance to the village, on the opposite side of which there was also a manor house. The settlement was abandoned in the last quarter of the 14th century.

Excavation history

In 1976, walls were discovered on the wooded ridge, which turned out to be the remains of buildings in an abandoned village. The desert was excavated from 1977 to 1989 by Fritz Felgenhauer and from 1990 to 2000 by his daughter Sabine Felgenhauer-Schmiedt . The village has been open to the public since then.

literature

  • Sabine Felgenhauer-Schmiedt: Hard: a desert complex near Thaya in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel. Self-published by the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies, St. Pölten 2008, ISBN 978-3-901635-13-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Felgenhauer-Schmiedt: The farmhouses of the desert Hard, Lower Austria. Thoughts on the three-part house. , in: Find reports of the individual excavation campaigns in “Arbeitsberichte des Kultur- und Museumsverein Thaya” 1977–1990, Ruralia IV PDF ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruralia.cz
  2. ^ Hans Krawarik: Settlement types and ways of life in the Middle Ages. Lit, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3643507464 , p. 164.

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 49.2 ″  N , 15 ° 20 ′ 6 ″  E