Sachsengang
The Sachsengang was an island of the Danube in the southern Marchfeld around 20 km east of Vienna and is now located in Oberhausen in the municipality of Groß-Enzersdorf .
history
At that time the Danube had extensive floodplains and swamps . The island lay in one of the Danube bends or corridors , as they were called in the Middle Ages. The island was originally called Sachsonaganc .
The immigrant residents were called Saxons . In 1021 it was donated by Heinrich II to Weihenstephan Monastery and subsequently to Freising Abbey . A Sachsengang family was also considered to be the fiefdom of the bishops of Freising, who owned fiefs in Gablitz in the Vienna Woods.
At the end of the 11th century the fortress Sachsengang or Feste Sachsonaganc was built here, which formed the origin of today 's Sachsengang Castle .
Bishop Otto, the fourth son of Leopold III. , built a village on the northern edge of the island after 1137 with a church dedicated to St. James . The village was first called Ottendorf , later Pischolfsdorf . This name changed to Pischelsdorf and finally Pysdorf . In the course of the first Turkish siege in 1529, the village was probably burned down.
Web links
- Sachsengang Castle
- Entry via Sachsengang to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ The story of "Alten Mayer", accessed on May 15, 2010
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 26.7 ″ N , 16 ° 35 ′ 6.9 ″ E