Schimmelprung ruin

Schimmelprung ruin
Alternative name (s):	Thunau
Creation time :	before 1196
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	ruin
Place:	Thunau am Kamp
Geographical location	48 ° 35 '7 " N , 15 ° 38' 49" E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '7 " N , 15 ° 38' 49" E
Height:	360 m above sea level A.

The Schimmelprung ruin is located in Thunau am Kamp near Gars am Kamp in the Kamptal in Lower Austria , not far from the Gars am Kamp castle ruins , and stands on a rock about 100 meters above the right bank of the Kamp.

history

Thunau Castle was first mentioned in a document from 1196 and was the seat of the Thunau ministerial family (Thumbenove). At the end of the 14th century it began to decline.

The name Schimmelprung, however, only got the ruin from the legends that have grown up around this ruin. In some of them the lord of the castle is referred to as a Knight Templar , in others a robber baron . In all versions he is portrayed as a very domineering and brutal knight who exploited his subjects to the last. After a while, the oppressed peasants no longer put up with this and besieged the castle. When the castle was stormed, the lord wanted to flee with his white horse. When he realized the hopeless situation, he gave his horse the spurs and threw himself over the rock face.

The castle was not rebuilt and has since fallen into ruin. The area of the former castle can still be guessed today due to the remains of the wall. Towards the Kamp there is still a very large part of the wall, with loopholes still in place. In addition, parts of the wall with passages can still be seen.

Castle

The castle was built in the south of Thunau on a rock that slopes vertically on three sides to the river Kamp. Access was from the west and was secured by three section trenches . In the former castle square Bering was keep set in the west corner. The barrel-vaulted basement of the keep has been partially preserved.

literature

Falko Daim , Karin Kühtreiber, Thomas Kühtreiber : Castles - Waldviertel, Wachau, Moravian Thayatal . 2nd edition, Verlag Freytag & Berndt, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7079-1273-9 , pp. 148-149.
Ilse Schöndorfer: Stones and Legends - Castle ruins in Lower Austria . 1st edition. Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85326-114-0 , pp. 91–92.
Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 , Thunau am Kamp, Schimmelsprung ruins, p. 1177.

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Schimmelsprung - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry about the Schimmelsprung ruin on Lower Austria castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
Entry over the ruins of Schimmelsprung to Burgen-Austria
The history of the Schimmelprung ruin
Interest group for the rescue of the Schimmelsprung ruins ( Memento from March 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive )