Herbersdorf Castle near Stainz
| Herbersdorf Castle near Stainz | ||
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 Herbersdorf Castle 1681, view in south direction. In the foreground the mills on the Mühlbach des Stainzbach |
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| Creation time : | End of the 12th / beginning of the 13th century as a permanent house, after 1575 as a four-winged castle | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | only a few ( cellar ) vaults remain, uneven ground and property boundaries indicate the location | |
| Standing position : | Ministerials | |
| Construction: | no longer recognizable | |
| Place: | Herbersdorf, municipality of Rassach | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 52 '38 " N , 15 ° 17' 52" E | |
| Height: | 320 m above sea level A. | |
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Herbersdorf Castle near Stainz was a castle near Stainz in the Deutschlandsberg district in Styria . It was in the town of Herbersdorf in the southeast of Stainz, north of Rassach .
history
A fortified residence at the site of the later castle initially belonged to the Herbersdorfer family, also Herberstorff (noble family). These were servants of the Lords of Wildon . The family died out in the 14th century, a younger line of the family owned the Herbersdorf Castle of the same name near Wildon. The property came to the Lemsitzer family , whose ancestral castle was west of St. Stefan ob Stainz . Chunrad the Lemsitzer zu Herbersdorf lived at the end of the 14th century on what was then the castle.
Several changes of ownership followed. In 1438 the castle was a fiefdom of the Styrian rulers, the tithe belonged to the Bishop of Seckau , before that to the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The Hollenecker family also held tithes in Herbersdorf as a fief of the Seckau diocese. The complex came from the Retzer family in 1575 through the sale of Countess Barbara de Nogarol, the widow of Adam Retzer, to the von Eggenberg family (noble family) . The building was then known as the Edlmanssitz Herbersdorf . With him the rights of a keep were connected.
In 1602 the estate was sold by Seifried's heir, Ulrich Freiherr von Eggenberg, to Ferdinand Freiherrn von Maschwander and his wife Maximiliana (born Freiin von Herbersdorf), and in 1648 by Johann Gabriel Freiherr von Maschwander to the Stainz Abbey . The monastery did not need the residential buildings of the castle (only about 3.5 km away from the monastery) and the complex with the castle park and fish pond began to deteriorate.
After the abolition of the monastery in 1786, Herbersdorf became a state property. The castle continued to deteriorate, was demolished in the following years and the material was used for other buildings. The site was sold to Anton Ritter von Wittman in 1830 and then to Archduke Johann's family in 1840. In the second half of the 20th century it came back into private hands.
location
The castle was located in the southeast of Stainz north of today's L 617 Mettersdorferstraße, which runs from Stainz towards Mettersdorf and Preding in the valley floor of the Stainzbach and south of the route of the Stainzer local railway . It is to the west of the path that leads from Herbersdorf north towards Ettendorf bei Stainz . The eastern border of the former castle grounds can be seen along the course of this path: the southern part of the path does not run in a straight line, but instead avoids today's Derrisch farm (Herbersdorf oil mill) by a curve.
There are farms on the former castle grounds:
The court vlg. Derrisch (Terisch) used to be called vlg. Schlossbauer. The house in this courtyard is completely built with a cellar, stone blocks are worked into the cellar walls, which are traced back to the demolition material of the castle. This cellar is known as the former castle cellar. Whether it is actually (perhaps partially) over 600 years old, i.e. originally part of the fortifications, is assumed, but is not documented (for this the basement would have to have been part of the predecessor complex of the castle, which, given its at least partial brick construction, closer investigation needed).
For the northern part of the Schlossseppl farm south of vlg. Derrisch describes cross vaults for two rooms. This property is shown in the depiction of Vischer to the right of the castle as a brick house.
The property located further to the right (west) in this picture is the courtyard vlg. Castle weaver.
Whether some property lines indicate the location of the original fences around the castle is being considered.
investment
The first fortification is described as a permanent house surrounded by walls and moats. It is dated to the 12th century.
From 1575 Seifried von Eggenberg had the castle built instead of the fortification. At that time a two-storey square building with two protruding corner towers was built, which surrounded an arcade courtyard. In the south there was another tower, in which perhaps remains of an older tower were built. A legal dispute arose from the fact that building material was fetched from the Stainz Abbey; its settlement gave the client the right to extract timber west of the then ruinous Wessenstein Castle .
The complex was in poor condition as early as 1786 when the Stainz Abbey was dissolved. Nothing is visible from the walls of the castle; meadows and fields lie in its area. Slight depressions in the ground are traced back to collapsed former vaults.
Some statues from the castle are located in the area: To the Virgin Mary statue in the main square of Stainz, two statues in front of wayside chapel (Chapel bars Anderlecht) in Herbersdorf and a statue of Mary Immaculate vlg the property. Driver. A wooden Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary, which can be found near the courtyard. Derrisch was found missing. Other statues, e.g. B. those in front of the Höllerhansl chapel in Marhof , the Hartschiebl statue of the Virgin Mary in Rassach and other work pieces , such as two columns in a house cellar in Georgsberg, are suspected as possible remains of the palace complex.
use
The farm vlg. Terisch is the seat of the " Herbersdorf oil mill ", in which Styrian pumpkin seed oil is produced, and oil pumpkins grow on fields in the area of the former castle . Before the opening of the oil mill, the building on this farm was used as a scout home.
Other buildings on the former castle grounds are used as residential houses or farms.
The route of the Stainzer local railway (also called Flascherlzug) runs along the northern border of the former castle grounds. The train also has a stop there where trains stop (but only with prior notification in the oil mill). When public transport was still used on this route, the “Herbersdorf” stop was located there .
Web links
- Entry via Herbersdorf to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria. An encyclopaedic collection of the Styrian fortifications and properties, which were endowed with various privileges. Graz 1961, Stiasny publishing house. P. 69.
- ↑ a b History of the castle on the website of the Herbersdorf oil mill.
- ↑ Land register district court Stainz deposit number (EZ) 1 cadastral municipality (KG) 61217 Herbersdorf.
- ↑ Werner Murgg, Bernhard Hebert: Medieval and early modern fortifications in the district of Deutschlandsberg: recording of the soil monuments. With drawings by Stefan Karl. In: Contributions to medieval archeology in Austria BMÖ. Volume 10, born in 1994. Ed .: Austrian Society for Medieval Archeology ÖGM, Vienna. ISSN 1011-0062 . P. 67–68 (Incorrect location: not in the southwest, but in the southeast of Stainz).
- ↑ a b c d e Werner Murgg, Bernhard Hebert: Wehrbauten. P. 67.
- ↑ Cellar of the castle on the website of the Herbersdorf oil mill.
- ^ Website of the Herbersdorf oil mill.
- ↑ Property No. 615 EZ 149 KG 61217 Herbersdorf.
- ↑ Property No. 71/3 EZ 33 KG 61217 Herbersdorf.
- ^ Werner Murgg, Bernhard Hebert: Wehrbauten. P. 67 with reference to: Robert Baravalle: Disappeared Styrian castles. Daily newspaper Tagespost from August 10, 1924.
- ↑ Winfried Bräunlich, Dieter Weiss: Signs on the way. Religious small monuments in the communities Georgsberg, Rassach, Stainztal and Stallhof. Simadruck Deutschlandsberg. Stainz 2012. p. 34 (Georgsberg columns), p. 77 (Riegelanderl chapel) and p. 95 (Hartschiebl statue of the Virgin Mary).
- ^ Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau . No. 40 of October 5, 2012. Volume 85, 2012. Page 9.