Jörg Scheck from Wald

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Jörg Scheck von Wald (also Georg Scheck von Wald or Jörg Scheck vom Walde) († around 1450 ) was Burgrave of Steyr and had a feudal relationship with the Wallseern .

Life

Jörg Scheck von Wald became councilor and captain of Duke Albrecht V (since 1438 King Albrecht II ), was the owner of the regional court on the Tullnerfeld and was in high regard. In 1429 Aggstein became his property and in 1438 he was authorized to collect a Danube toll .

After Albrecht's death in 1439, he was also in the service of his successor Friedrich III. and as "Council in Austria" was a member of the regiment (government) for the time of the absence of the ruler when he traveled to Aachen for the coronation of the king in 1442 . In that year he was Vogt over all Salzburg people in Austria and Archbishop Salzburg Hofmeister to Arnsdorf , which was owned by the Archbishopric of Salzburg until the beginning of the 19th century .

As an assessor in the royal court, he was commissioned to investigate the economic decline of Krems and Stein . In the last years of his life, Jörg Scheck von Wald was Chamber Master of Duke Albrecht VI. , the brother of King Friedrich (emperor since 1452) and is mentioned as deceased in 1450.

A younger Jörg Scheck von Wald, presumably the son of the older one, was a servant to the court servants of Emperor Friedrich III in 1472 .

The legend of the "rose garden"

The legend of the “little rose garden” at Aggstein Castle is associated with the name Jörg or Georg Scheck von Wald, popularly known as “Schreck vom Wald” or “Schreckenwald”. The notorious and bloodthirsty lord of the castle had his prisoners brought to a narrow ledge - the "rose garden", as he cynically called it - and presented them with the choice between jumping into the abyss or starving. The legend with a historical core from the 15th century has been handed down since the 17th century.

Conflicts about toll collection on the Danube and the aristocratic feuds form the background of this legend. The severely damaged population turned the historical check from Wald into a robber baron . Which of the two, the older or the younger, is supposed to be the “robber baron” of the legend cannot be said, presumably the younger one.

A monastery archivist mistakenly transferred the person of Jörg Scheck von Wald to the time of the Kuenring rule in the 13th century, which combined the legend of the rose garden with the legend of the "dogs of Kuenring". The brothers Heinrich and Hadmar von Kuenring, also known as robber barons, with the nickname "Dog", led an uprising against Duke Friedrich II in 1230 and were defeated. Through Hadmar's identification with Schreckenwald, the rose garden motif became part of the Kuenring tradition.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal Lexicon Lower Austria accessed on August 11, 2013
  2. ↑ Lower Austria Chronicle accessed on August 11, 2013
  3. ↑ Jörg (Georg) Scheck von Wald on the memory of the country , accessed on September 18, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Jörg Scheck from Wald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georg Scheck von Wald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Knight, feudal lord, royal councilor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1504