Schenkenberg (Vienna)
| Schenkenberg | ||
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 View from the Reisenberg to the Schenkenberg |
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| height | 345 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Vienna , Austria | |
| Mountains | Vienna Woods | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 15 '25 " N , 16 ° 19' 20" E | |
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The Schenkenberg is a 345-meter-high mountain in the 19th Vienna district Döbling .
geography
The Schenkenberg is Obersievering and represents the southeastern extension of the Pfaff mountain . In the north of the separating travel mountain stream to Schenkenberg from Reisenberg , in the south, the Arbesbach the border to Hackenberg is. Geologically, the Schenkenberg as northeastern foothills of the eastern Alps in the Flyschzone consisting of Sandstone , marl and mudstone is composed.
history
The Schenkenberg was first mentioned in a document in 1329 as in the Schenkenberg. The name probably goes back to a cupbearer family who owned properties here.
The Schenkenberg taverns are an old, Swiss nobility, named after the mountain castle and the area between Fricktal and Ergow (today canton Aargau / Switzerland).
In 1243, "dominus H. de Schenkenberc" zu Bremgarten (Canton Aargau) is mentioned in a document together with Count Rudolf and Hartmann von Habsburg.
In 1248 Heinrich von Schenkenberg gave the daughter of the Viennese convent "Cigelhoven" in Michelstetten a bailiwick.
In 1264 Heinrich von Schenkenberg gave the Dominican convent Stuenitz (Studenice), where his daughter Agnes was, 5 hubs to St. Georg in Carniola.
On November 11, 1301, Euphemia made the donor of Schenkenberg to the nunnery in Tulln (founder: Rudolf von Habsburg I - see von Schenkenberg, Schenkenberg castle ruins in the canton of Aargau / Switzerland and Schenkenberg castle ruins in Baden-Württemberg) for the salvation of her deceased husband Wilhelm, whose family also built Senkenberk Castle (today in the Czech Republic), a donation. Witness was her son-in-law Albero von Hohenstein from Hohenstein Castle (Gföhl) .
In addition, the Kuenringers , who also owned properties in this area, were chief taverns . Today the Schenkenberg is surrounded by numerous vineyards.
literature
- Karl Kothbauer: Döbling - and its reed and field names . Dissertation, Vienna 2001.
