Neumarkter Schanze and gatehouse

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Neumarkt ski jump and gatehouse

Neumarkter Schanze and Torhaus were built during the Thirty Years' War in 1638 under Prince Archbishop Paris Lodron . The gatehouse still provides access to the parish church and the Neumarkt am Wallersee cemetery (Kirchenstrasse 5).

history

As early as 1626, Neumarkt citizens were expropriated because of the construction of a Schanz am Kichbichl . At that time, Paris Lodron commissioned his court builder Santino Solari and Lieutenant Colonel Johann Sigmund von Mabon to build a fortification that was supposed to protect the Archdiocese of Salzburg from the peasant revolts in Upper Austria . Originally, the whole place was to be walled around, but only the Kirchbichl was walled around, surrounded with a palisade and designed as a retirade (= place of retreat in the event of a military retreat). Above the gate was the Herberg-Stüberl , where the commanding officer lived. In the hill area there was an armory in which numerous military equipment was kept. The facility also had its own well.

After a market fire in 1675, the gatehouse was rented out as a residential building. After numerous repairs, the fortress character of the complex was given up by the landscape in 1746 . The weapons store was brought to the Neumarkt nursing court in 1747 .

Jump and gatehouse today

Above the important trade route from Salzburg to Linz , an approximately 3 m high earth wall was built on the northern edge of Neumarkt and reinforced with five protruding roundels . When the ski jump was built, the former vicariate and today's parish church was included in the defense system. On the south-eastern side, the gate was built with the slightly hook-shaped floor plan and a barrel-vaulted entrance .

Coat of arms and memorial plaque for the fire of 1879
Back of the gatehouse of Neumarkt

The three-storey house consists of two brick floors and a wooden block building on top. The arched gate is made of conglomerate rock . In the marble keystone is the coat of arms of the builder, Paris Lodron (inscription PARIS. EX. COM. LOPDRONI. F. MDCXXXVIII. ). Above, a plaque reminds of the market fire of 1879, in which the guard house was also damaged and later a wooden structure was added.

Apart from minor changes, the facility has remained unchanged since then. The Schanze is owned by the market community of Neumarkt, the guard house belongs to the parish of Neumarkt.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '48.7 "  N , 13 ° 13' 27.4"  E