Obereitzing Castle
The Obereitzing castle stood in the municipality Eitzing in District Ried im Innkreis in Upper Austria .
history
The castle was named Obereitzing because there was another aristocratic seat (called Enzing or Burgenzing) in the village of Untereitzing (a Fridericus de Pfnurre is documented at the Pfnurrhof in 1220; Ulrich and Oswald Geltinger, Hans Georg von Thanhausen, were other owners of the Pfnurrhof as well as Georg and Hans Christoph Paumgarten). In addition, Obereitzing Castle was on a small hill above the village. The name Eitzing is derived from the proper name Izo .
The Lords of Eitzing are first mentioned in 1150 as Jeing . The brothers Dudelricus and Hiltradus around 1150 are known from this family, Chalhoch and Wernhart around 1160 and Heinrich and Arnold around 1200. The Eitzinger Hans (1318), Heinrich, Bürger zu Obernberg, Philipp and his son Georg are known from the 14th century . At the end of the 14th century a Georg Eitzinger, son of Stephan, is mentioned who had a list of all goods and services that he had taken over from his father. The brothers Ulrich, Oswald and Stephan von Eitzing, who were raised to the baron status by King Albrecht II in 1439, also come from the Bavarian line of the Eitzinger family . In 1472 a nobleman registered Taman Eyczinger zw Eyczing (Thomas Eitzinger, † 1472) as the owner of the castle. The grave place of the Eitzinger is in Stift Reichersberg , but also at the church of Eitzing there is a marble grave slab of the family. The Eitzinger family is widely ramified and can still be traced today, but the Upper Austrian line of the Eitzinger no longer exists.
Today's local coat of arms of Eitzing is derived from the coat of arms of the Lords of Eitzing. However, the original coat of arms of the Eitzinger was more splendid. In its first form, it was a divided shield, red at the top and white at the bottom, with three balls (tournament piston buttons) dividing the shield (corresponds to today's coat of arms). The later baronial shield is divided into four parts: the first repeats the original coat of arms, a second and third field contain a lowered hat with red tassels and a whitish fish above, the fourth field is again split diagonally and shows a white band in the middle. At the top of the shield appear two crowned open helmets, on the first there are two buffalo horns (red and black), on the left helmet lies the red hat and the aforementioned fish.
Eitzinger grave slab on the church of Eitzing
Coat of arms of the Eitzinger
Eitzinger coat of arms in color
After Thomas Eitzinger's death, his sister Kunigunde Kastendorfer sold the property to Ulrich Geltinger zu Althausen , Mautner in Schärding. The Geltinger had their headquarters near Göding in Wallern. In 1533 an Oswald Geltinger is the owner. Under the Geltingers, the two lords of Eitzing were united. Oswald Geltinger died in 1536.
In 1538, a Georg von Pawmgarten (Baumgarten) from Frauenstein am Inn Castle , son of Peter Baumgartner, Chancellor of Ingolstadt , was recorded on Obereitzing († 1559). He was followed by his son Hans Christoph I. von Paumgarten, Friedburg's caretaker . His sister was married to Andreas von Tannberg; religiously they belonged to the Landsassen opposition that had formed under the Counts of Ortenburg against the Bavarian duke. This conspiracy was uncovered and Hans Christoph was also arrested. After kneeling at apology, he had to undertake special services in the event of war, but was still allowed to live according to his Protestant sentiments, but was not allowed to make any changes in the churches under his control. Hans Christoph I died on March 15, 1570 and is buried in the Frauenstein chapel of Mining Church. This family then died out with his son Hans Christoph II († July 10, 1602).
The Paumgartens were followed by the Hochfeldts to Aistersheim and Almegg . In 1638 Johann Adolf von Tattenbach-Rheinstein († 1647), owner of St. Martin Obereitzing von den Hochfeldern, bought. The castle has remained uninhabited since this owner, was left to decay and demolished in the mid-18th century.
According to the etching by Michael Wening from 1721, Obereitzing was a three-storey building with four towers. The castle was surrounded by a wall, which was reinforced by corner towers and a gate. Farm buildings stretched north of the castle, below are ponds that are enclosed by a fence. The gentle slope to the ponds is planted with fruit trees.
Obereitzing Castle today
The farm estate "Hofbauer" has been located on the site of the former castle since the 19th century. The courtyard looks almost like a castle, although no remnants of the wall were included for its construction. The last remnants of the castle wall were removed during an expansion in favor of silo structures. Of the former six ponds, one is still preserved below the property, but it shows signs of siltation and needs to be replaced.
Hofbauer on the site of Obereitzing Castle
Silted up pond below the farm farmer
literature
- Eitzing. A lovable community in the Innviertel . Edited by the municipality of Eitzing, Upper Austria. Ried i. Innkreis, 2013. pp. 24f. ISBN 978-3-902684-35-6 .
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 3rd edition . Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 2.3 ″ N , 13 ° 29 ′ 45.7 ″ E