Ort Castle in the Innkreis
The Schloss Ort im Innkreis was in the same community in Ried im Innkreis District of Upper Austria . The castle was on a protruding hill on the Aichaberg (Eichberg). The name Ort (Orth, Ortt, Hort) is possibly derived from the Latin hortus (= garden); According to an alternative interpretation, place can also mean the end of a demarcation (i.e. edge border). After the engraving by Michael Wening , Orth Castle was a walled two-story tower-like building on the Aichaberg. There were two court brands in Ort itself , the Upper Hofmark belonged to the Reichersberg Monastery and the Lower Hofmark belonged to Ort Castle.
Burgstall from place
The Burgstall von Ort was recently found in the municipality of Ort. This Fliehburg, which dates from the first half of the 10th century, is located between the Lower Hofmark and the Haghuber estate (Stött, No. 5). The almost round core area of the facility has a diameter of around 30 meters. It is protected in a semicircle from north to south by a ditch about ten meters wide and three meters deep, with a second in front of it, at the southern end of which there is a round pit that is about 50 cm deep and ten meters in diameter . A third wall can also be detected (possibly a paddock to bring the cattle to safety). On the west side, this fortification was protected by the steep terrain (slope towards the Antiesen ). This refuge was probably built to protect against the Magjar incursions .
The remains of Ort Castle are in the immediate vicinity (280 m away) of this medieval fortification. A certificate of reichersberg abbey of 1407 suggests an argument with Hanns of Messenpeck, because here is called: "From the paws due to Purkhestals ze place of Messenpeck the rule is to give a letter." This leads to the presumption that the Lords of Place on this refuge and not on the castle shown in the etching by Wening; possibly the old refuge castle was reactivated as their residence in the 11th century and Ort Castle was only built later by the Messenpecks.
history
Ort Castle was possibly built in the 11th century, it was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Ort, who were the owners here until 1320. The first lords of the place who were sure to reside here were the brothers Wikpoto and Wernhard (circa 1140–1170) - the Richerus de Orto , named 1100/20 , does not belong here, he was the ancestor of the lords of beings . Wikpoto and Wernhard were noble followers of the Counts of Formbach . After their extinction in 1158, the next generation was partly ministerial of the Hochstift Passau (Ulrich, approx. 1180–1230), partly the Counts of Andechs (Wernhard, approx. 1180–1203 / 4). Later places were Wernhard († 1235/40) and Hermann (1262) with four children. The places are mentioned until 1393, but were then subjects of the Reichersberg monastery . The last place was Walchum der orter . The importance of the places emerges from the fact that they are mentioned about a hundred times as witnesses in documents or in the traditional codes of Reichersberg, Formbach , St. Nicola or the Diocese of Passau .
Around 1320, the town came into the possession of the Knights of Messenpeck (Chunrad and Heinrich), who had their headquarters in Messenbach, a current district of Lambrechte . These held the place until 1486 in possession. In 1388 and 1400 Weigl Messenpeck got into a dispute with the Reichersberg monastery and caused great damage to the monastery. Hanns von Messenpeck († 1454) had Ort Castle rebuilt, he too was in dispute with Reichersberg over various violations (his tombstone can be found in the parish church of Ort; the inscription on his tombstone reads "anno domini 1454 is already buried the noble hanns von Messenpach sat here in town ” ). His son Lazarus von Messenpeck († 1473) was the keeper of Ried im Innkreis ; he died in Ried, his tombstone is in the Rieder church, city parish church.
Schloss Ort was a fiefdom of the Counts of Andechs and later of the Counts of Ortenburg . In 1486 the Messenpecks sold the place to Friedrich Mautner von Katzenberg . Around 1500 it came to the Duke Georg of Bavaria , this place sold in the same year to the Diocese of Chiemsee ; Castle and Hofmark remained here until 1684. Ort also had the lower jurisdiction, this was moved to Schärding under the Chiemsee , the administration of the Hofmark came to the rule of Raab .
In 1684 Johann Veit, Count of Maxlrain and Honhenwaldeck acquired the castle and Hofmark. Since he died without heirs, Ort came to the Barons of Neuhaus by inheritance in 1704. In 1709 the Reichersberg monastery bought the castle with the associated Hofmark. In 1732 the provost Hercula had the dilapidated castle demolished and built the rectory on site from the castle's materials. The palace chapel was closed under Emperor Joseph II . The Hofmark Ort still belonged to the Reichersberg monastery in 1772.
Todays situation
A footpath leads to the location of the former castle. Rest benches have been set up at the Burgplatz, giving a good view of the church towers of the surrounding communities ( Obernberg , Reichersberg , Antiesenhofen and Münsteuer ). At the beginning of the Burgplatz is the so-called blacksmith's cross, which reminds of the suicide of the blacksmith Karl Hochaspöck in 1897 because of his wife's admission to the mental hospital in Linz. As you can see in the depiction of Michael Wening (far right in the picture), there was already a cross with a votive picture at Schloss Ort in memory of a carriage accident in 1742, which was then brought to the Bründl Chapel.
literature
- Peter Fußl, Walter Trausinger, Wilhelm Bartel: Home register of the municipality Ort i. I. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Ried im Innkreis 1980.
- Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .
- Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 2: Innviertel and Alpine foothills . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1964.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Mahler: Two "new" ground monuments in the Antiesental. Der Bundschuh , 2007, 10, pp. 7-13.
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 9.4 ″ N , 13 ° 26 ′ 4 ″ E