Sachsenburg hunting lodge

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Sachsenburg hunting lodge after a copper engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

The imperial hunting lodge Sachsenburg was located in the district Neubau of the municipality Hörsching in the district Linz-Land . The castle is, how on the engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer can see because of this local localization and castle construction , New Sachsenburg and because of its earmarking country Princely Forsthaus new building .

History of the Sachsenburg hunting lodge

When exactly the wild bans of the former Steyregg hunting area on the Kürnberg came to the sovereign is not known; this was probably the case around 1512. In order to take advantage of the hunting opportunities on the Kürnberg, Emperor Maximilian I , who was a passionate hunter, had a hunting lodge built in the village of Neubau between 1515 and 1518. The demolition material from the Kürnberg Castle (or the so-called Altsachsenburg) was possibly used . This interpretation is controversial, however, it may well be that the material was simply taken from the summit of the Kürnberg .

The Sachsenburg was fiercely contested during the peasant uprising of 1525, but was successfully defended by Captain Schifer. In 1752 the Sachsenburg came to the Kremsmünster Abbey . In 1802 the building was sold to Johann Minimayr. He had it removed down to one floor; this remaining building was used as an Aryan powder tower.

description

As you can see from the engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer, Schloss Neubau was a tall three-storey building with four watch towers at the corners and a clock tower in the second window axis that protruded slightly from the building. The wall surrounding the castle had a fortified tower at each corner.

The so-called "Kellerstöckl" opposite the barracks remained of the castle as a small remainder. Until before the Second World War , a plaque with the following inscription is said to have been attached to the gable of the cellar floor: 

Saxnburg bin ich genant vor tausnt Jarn Am Körnberg wol pekant.

This plaque is said to have originally hung above the entrance to the castle, now it is on a residential building in Sachsenburgweg. The Kellerstöckl was also demolished a few years ago. In the surrounding gardens, foundation walls of the Sachsenburg can still be seen.

literature

  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home . 3. Edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
  • Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria . tape 2 : Innviertel and Alpine foothills . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1964.
  • Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
  • Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual by Norbert Grabherr . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz (no year).
  • Christian K. Steingruber: Research area Kürnberg: New knowledge about prehistoric and early historical soil monuments. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 61, Linz 2007, pp. 165-190.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Aspernig: history of Kürnbergs near Linz. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Linz 1967. Linz 1968, pp. 11–152 ( online (PDF; 6.1 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  2. ^ Christian K. Steingruber: Research area Kürnberg. 2007, p. 9.
  3. ^ Christian K. Steingruber: A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual by Norbert Grabherr. P. 168.

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '15.1 "  N , 14 ° 11' 58.7"  E