Local mountain Zori Wall

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Local mountain Zori Wall
Schiltern - local mountain Zorimauer.jpg
Creation time : 1180
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Schiltern
Geographical location 48 ° 31 '1.5 "  N , 15 ° 37' 30.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '1.5 "  N , 15 ° 37' 30.6"  E
Local mountain Zorimauer (Lower Austria)
Local mountain Zori Wall

The local mountain Zorimauer is a medieval castle ruin in the cadastral community of Schiltern in the municipality of Langenlois in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria . The castle ruins are under monument protection .

location

The ruins of the hilltop castle are in the middle of the community on a hill next to the parish church of St. Pankraz.

history

Heinrich de Schiltarn is first mentioned in 1180. He is the first known lord of the castle of Schiltern. Like many of his neighbors, he was also a follower of the Kuenringer . However, there is no evidence that the castle itself ever belonged to the Kuenringers. In any case, around the middle of the 13th century it was sovereign. However, it was not on the site of the current castle, but next to the current parish church. In 1377 a Ruger von Schiltern was named as the Duchess Beatrix's chamberlain. From 1386 parts of the rule came to Konrad and Hermann von Schad. In 1402 this was probably already completely owned by Georg Schad. In his time, the supremacy came to the House of Brandenburg-Hohenzollern . How this happened has not yet been clarified. Schiltern remained a Brandenburg fiefdom until 1783, after which it became sovereign again. The Schad family moved their mansion to the neighboring Kronsegg Castle and left the castle in Schiltern to decay.

For further history see Schiltern Castle

description

Two and a half sides of the originally square fortification have survived. A moat is still there, but is not accessible. What is remarkable is the masonry , which was partly made in opus spicatum construction (cornwork).

literature

  • Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Brigitte Fassbinder: Castles and palaces between Gföhl, Ottenstein and Grafenegg. Castles and palaces in Lower Austria , Volume 17 Birch series, St. Pölten – Vienna 1990, p. 96 ff.
  • Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (=  Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 1032 .
  • Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , p. 282 ff.
  • Franz Eppel : Das Waldviertel , Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1966, p. 205
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages, floor plan dictionary . Würzburg 1994, p. 687.
  • Gerhard Reichhalter, Karin and Thomas Kühtreiber: Castles Waldviertel Wachau . Verlag Schubert & Franzke, St. Pölten 2001, ISBN 3-7056-0530-5 , p. 207 f.
  • Hans P. Schad'n: The local mountains and related fortifications in Lower Austria. A contribution to the history of medieval fortifications and their development from the ring wall to the walled castle and city defenses. Part 1: Communications from the Anthropological Society 80/3, 1950, 245–352; Part 2: Communications from the Anthropological Society 81 / 2–3, 1953, pp. 25–185.
    Hans P. Schad'n: The local mountains and related fortifications in Lower Austria. A contribution to the history of fortification and its development from the ring wall to the walled castle and city walls. Prehistoric Research 3, Horn / Vienna 1953, p. 217 f.

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