Hüttenstein castle ruins

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Remains of the Hüttenstein castle ruins

The Hüttenstein castle ruins are located in the municipality of Sankt Gilgen in the Salzburg-Umgebung district in the state of Salzburg .

West of the Scharflinger Höhe on the road between Lake Wolfgang and Lake Mondsee , the Mühlaueralm - Steingartenalm - Almkogel supply route branches off and leads to the remains of the castle.

history

Due to the way it was built, it can be assumed that the castle was built in the second half of the 13th century. The castle is first mentioned on July 30, 1323. At that time there was an exchange between Archbishop Friedrich III. and the St. Florian monastery , where a fiefdom is mentioned "located in the Aeug juxta castrum nostrum Huetenstain " ('not far from our castle'). From 1329 a building invoice from Albrecht the Zapffe and the Archbishop for the expansion of the fortress Hüttenstein has been preserved. From 1577 the news comes that during an inspection by the court building manager Ruep Rettinger the masonry of the castle was still in good condition, but the wooden structures all have to be renewed because all the doors, windows, stoves and iron items had been torn out; the roof should be covered with larch shingles because of its steepness. 1608 says, however: "The Old Castle Hüttenstain but this time ... was all inhabited paufellig even with Mannsgedenkhen nit." It was not until the early 16th century, Archbishop Matthew Lang , a steep Fuhrweg of Sacharfling up had been created. In 1614, under Archbishop Markus Sittikus , a repair was started. The arched street gate made of ashlar stones "above the Krotensee on the Reitt between the Perge des Mannsee and Abersee" and the wooden structures ( overrooms ) were repaired.

In the course of the 16th century, the seat of a nursing court was established in Hüttenstein and in 1565 a separate building was built for the nursing judge , today's new Hüttenstein Castle , conveniently located on the Krotensee in the Winkl valley basin. The old military lock lost its function.

A site plan from 1747, written by the engineer lieutenant Johann Elias Geyer, speaks of the collapsed walls of the old Hüttenstein Castle, known as the Türkenschanz , consisting of double parapets and a Tschartake . These defensive structures, the Turkish entrenchments , go back to the Turkish wars and were built far behind the fronts against marauding troops of the Ottoman army. The Türkenschanz was repaired and occupied between October 24, 1745 and June 13, 1746 in the course of the War of the Austrian Succession . On the advice of Geyer, the Türkenschanze and the Tschartake were broken off on June 22nd, 1748.

In the 19th century the castle was finally in ruins.

Hüttenstein castle ruins today

Only small remains of a simple castle are preserved here. The castle was built on a 40 meter long and 10 meter wide rock ridge that lies parallel to the slope. On the slope side it is only protected by a not very steep, natural ditch, on the valley side the terrain slopes almost vertically. On the north side, the present terrain is rather flat, which is why an artificial neck trench three to five meters deep was dug out of the rock for protection . The old road passed directly below the castle.

The castle consisted of a square wall of about 14 × 8 meters. Horizontal layers were created from roughly worked rubble stones. whereby a layer of large stones was compared with small interstices. An inner wall, only preserved in small remains, divided the area into two unequal-sized rooms (the northern one was slightly larger). Of this, an approximately 6 meter long and 1.8 meter high section of the southern narrow side has been preserved. The wall thickness is approx. 1.20 m. The remains of the castle now form an overgrown heap of rubble that is no longer easily recognizable.

Nothing is left of the Türkenschanze, mentioned in 1747, and the guard houses.

literature

  • Bernd Huber: Under the protection of Rupert and Virgil - The castles and fortifications in the Salzburg Archbishopric. Volume 1: Flachgau - Upper Austria . Österreichischer Milizverlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-901185-65-6 , pp. 52–56.
  • Friederike Zaisberger , Walter Schlegel: Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Volume 2: Flachgau and Tennengau. Birch series, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85326-957-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ huettenstein_gr_02.jpg (750 × 481). In: burgseite.com. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 12.8 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 18"  E