Schanze on the church hill

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Linden tree on the ski jump on the church hill of Straßwalchen with a recognizable roundabout and wall
Linden tree on the ski jump at the church hill of Straßwalchen

The ski jump on the Kirchhügel is located in the municipality of Straßwalchen in the Salzburg-Umgebung district in the state of Salzburg .

It is located on the church hill, about 150 meters south of the church (near Kirchengasse 11). The place lies beneath the strong retaining walls, the stairs to the church and the new cemetery lead to the entrenchment.

history

The abbot Heinrich von Mondsee had to cede Straßwalchen to the archbishopric of Salzburg in 1250 and had received a promise of protection against the invasions of Bavaria . This is why Straßwalchen was heavily fortified in the 13th century by the Salzburg electrical engineer Philipp von Spanheim . At the beginning of the Thirty Years War , Straßwalchen was captured by the Bavarians in 1619; The background was the pledge of the Mondseeland to Bavaria and the fear of the Upper Austrian farmers that they would have to fear losses.

The place was also endangered because of the peasant revolts in Upper Austria , which is why Prince Archbishop Paris Lodron had the market fortified as well as Neumarkt in 1626 . The court builder Santino Solari and lieutenant colonel Johann Sigmund von Mabon were commissioned with the planning . Straßwalchen was completely protected by a picket fence . During the whole of the Thirty Years' War, the redoubts were built here, as evidenced by a request from 12 farmers from Mattsee from 1632 who wanted to be freed from the robot because of hail damage . In 1742 the ski jumps were renewed during the War of the Austrian Succession . Under captain de Guardi and the landscape co-administrator Benedict Pertl, a safe retirade in the cemetery of Straßwalchen, four strong gates at the rectory and five palisades at the garden house were created. In 1748, the return of the still good wood to the suppliers was ordered to make up for the damage.

Today's state of preservation

South of the parish church of Straßwalchen , following an edge of the terrain, a rampart sloping on both sides stretches towards the south-east to a widened roundabout (about 120 m from the church). At right angles to this, a largely leveled 40 m long wall points to a second roundabout. Then the wall goes to the northwest, but disappears here abruptly because it was demolished by the construction of the parish barn. It can be assumed that there used to be a third roundabout on the northeast corner; the fourth corner was already protected by the strong walls in the area of ​​the parish church.

Linden trees on the hill

On the two remaining roundels there are two summer linden trees ( Tilia platyphyllos ), which are protected as linden trees on the hill as a natural monument ( NDM00015 ). They were expelled in 1932, making them one of the oldest nature reserves in the country. The protected area is 0.3540 hectares and also includes the ski jumping facility  itself.

The two trees are about 15 meters high and have a trunk circumference of 1½ meters. Their age is estimated to be 300–450 years.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Linden trees on the Straßwalchen ski jump in the nature reserve book of the State of Salzburg
  2. Linden trees on the Straßwalchen ski jump ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worldoftrees.org archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Entry on worldoftrees.org

Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 45.3 "  N , 13 ° 15 ′ 23.3"  E