Altenburg (municipality of Windhaag)

Altenburg ( cadastral community )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Perg  (PE), Upper Austria
Pole. local community	Windhaag near Perg
Coordinates	48 ° 16 '3 "  N , 14 ° 41' 16"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '3 "  N , 14 ° 41' 16"  E
Building status	155 (2001)
Area  d. KG	7.26 km²
Statistical identification
Cadastral parish number	43202
Counting district / district	Windhaag near Perg (41126 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Altenburg ( Rotte ) locality
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Perg  (PE), Upper Austria
Pole. local community	Windhaag near Perg
Coordinates	48 ° 16 ′ 3 ″  N , 14 ° 41 ′ 16 ″  E
height	338  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	44 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	17 (2001)
Post Code	4322
prefix	+ 43/07264
Statistical identification
Locality code	10281
Counting district / district	Windhaag near Perg (41126 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Altenburg branch church

The local community of Altenburg , which was independent until 1938, is a cadastral community with 522 inhabitants (according to the 2001 census) and a village in the community of Windhaag near Perg with 37 inhabitants.

The Altenburg branch church, which belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Windhaag, is one of the most important monuments in the Mühlviertel due to its unspoiled state of preservation .

The Altenburg Museum, housed in the former school , deals with the history of Windhaag and in particular with the counter-reformer Joachim Enzmilner , Count of Windhag, as well as with his daughter, Eva Magdalena von Windhag , the first prioress of the former Dominican convent of Windhaag .

Geography and population

Altenburg lies at 383  m above sea level. A. The cadastral community of Altenburg borders on the cadastral community of Windhaag in the north. In the east, Altenburg is bounded by the cadastral communities of Innernstein and Münzbach of the community of Münzbach and in the south by all three cadastral communities of the city of Perg . In the west, the cadastral communities of Lebing and Allerheiligen approach Altenburg.

From the north-west to the south-west edge of the cadastral community, for example from the Kegelschmiede (now Perg electricity works ) to shortly after the Kuchlmühle, the Naarn delimits the community area. The Tobrabach , which also drains into the Naarn , is first called Modlerbach, then Altenburgerbach or Kropfmühlbach in the upper reaches.

The cadastral community comprises the localities or parts of the localities Altenburg (37), Forndorf (41), Freindorf (46), Hochtor (147), Karlingberg (168), Kuchlmühle (10) and Pragtal (74) (the information in brackets refer to based on the number of inhabitants at the time of the 2001 census). On this date, around 40% of the entire population of Windhaag lived in the Altenburg cadastral community.

history

Altenburg was first mentioned in writing around 1250.

Altenburg community

Despite the transfer of parish rights from Altenburg to Windhaag in 1782, the Altenburg cadastral parish was established at this time and after the subordination relationships were lifted in 1848, Altenburg became its own parish, which was not incorporated into Windhaag until 1938.

The mayors of Altenburg were:

• Mathäus Holzer (from July 27, 1850 to February 28, 1861)
• Josef Steinkellner (from February 28, 1861 to August 1, 1894)
• Franz Königshofer (from August 1, 1894 to October 22, 1911)
• Franz Steinkellner (from October 22, 1911 to May 27, 1919)
• Johann Königshofer (from May 27, 1919 to November 1, 1938)

Attractions

Former parish church and parish Altenburg near Windhaag

Altenburg rectory near Windhaag

The former parish church of Altenburg is now a branch church of the parish of Windhaag near Perg, as the parish rights were transferred from Altenburg to Windhaag as early as 1782.

The former rectory is still inhabited and privately owned. The former school belongs to the municipality of Windhaag and is used for museum purposes.

On and around the former castle church there is a park with sometimes very steep paths and stairs. On the south side there is a bridge over the Altenburgerbach and a water wheel below the rocky dome .

Castle Pragtal

Former Pragtal castle with farmyard and brick oven

Today only the castle entrenchments are reminiscent of the Pragtal castle built by Andreas Prag in 1564 in the area of ​​Altenburg . Ashlar stones from the abandoned Mitterberg Castle were used to build the estate . The building was a storey-high square, which had a roundabout at each corner and was surrounded on the outside by an earth wall.

In addition to the ownership of large estates, the castle also included a brick oven and vineyards in the area. The bricks for the monastery and church building in Windhaag were burned in Altenburg.

Stones were needed for the construction of the Dominican convent in Windhaag, which is why Eva Magdalena Enzmilner had Pragtal Castle demolished except for a subordinate house in the 1680s and later sold.

Altenburg Museum

Altenburg Museum with an exhibition on Joachim Enzmilner

The Altenburg Museum was established in 2002 in a building that was acquired by the church in a document as early as 1344. The Altenburg school was located in it around 1600. The museum is located opposite the former parish church and the former rectory.

The exhibition is dedicated to the history of Windhaag and Altenburg and in particular the history of the Count of Windhaag and his daughter Eva Magdalena.

Starting from the museum, the Enzmilner Kulturwanderweg has been marked, which leads back to Altenburg via Münzbach and Windhaag and provides historical knowledge at a total of 50 stations.

literature

• Georg Grüll: Altenburg in the Machland. In: Linzer Volksblatt. 1931.

Web links

Commons : Altenburg bei Windhaag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage Municipality of Windhaag near Perg
• Homepage of the Altenburg Museum - The Count of Windhaag
• Enzmilner cultural hiking trail

Individual evidence

1. ^ Altenburg, branch church. ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundesdenkmalamt: From the activities of the State Conservatory for Upper Austria. Vienna 2001, p. 149.
2. ↑ Circa 1250. Berthold, Bishop of Passau, requests Konrad von Altenburg and the brothers Ulrich and Pilgrim von Kapellen to get the Baumgartenberg monastery back the tithe that C. der Hauser forcibly withdrew from him . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 3, No. CLXXIII, p. 170.