Prague Valley Castle
| Prague Valley Castle | ||
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 Castle and Meierhof. Engraving by Clemens Beuttler 1656 |
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| Creation time : | 1564 | |
| Castle type : | Country castle | |
| Conservation status: | removed in 1680 | |
| Place: | Pragtal village | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 15 '52.8 " N , 14 ° 39' 50.8" E | |
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The Pragtal Castle was a country castle in the village of Pragtal, cadastral municipality Altenburg in the municipality of Windhaag near Perg in Upper Austria . Built in 1564 by Andreas von Prag (1514–1569) and demolished in 1680 by Eva Magdalena Enzmilner (1629–1700) in order to obtain building blocks for the Dominican convent in Windhaag .
location
Pragtal Castle was located in the middle of slightly undulating and agriculturally used terrain in the municipality of Windhaag near Perg in the Mühlviertel . The Pragtalbach, which flows into the Thurnhofbach not far, flows through the nearby small valley. The Prague Valley Castle consisted of two buildings:
- The actual castle on a gentle terrain spur , 355 m above sea level.
- The Meierhof in the flat valley of the Pragtalbach about 200 m south of the castle. There are also gardens, fields, meadows and vineyards all around.
The Schanzbauergut (Schanzbaur), Pragtal No. 6, now stands on the site of the actual castle. A surrounding polygonal earth wall is only faintly visible in the area. The Meiergut zu Pragtal (Pragthallhof), Pragtal No. 1, is now on the Meierhof square.
history
Emperor Friedrich III. enfeoffed Ladislaus Prager († 1514), also called "Laßla von Prag", with Windhaag Castle in 1485 . Between 1491 and 1506 he had the Pragstein Castle built on a rocky island in the Danube near Mauthausen .
The son and heir of Windhaag was Andreas of Prague (1514–1569). In 1564 he had the Pragtal Palace built 2.6 km (as the crow flies) southwest of Windhaag. For the construction, building blocks from the 1.6 km (as the crow flies) further south and already desolate Mitterberg castle ruins are said to have been used. Andreas of Prague named the palace complex Pragtal. After his death, his sons Friedrich von Prag († 1600) and Christoph von Prag (* 1542, † between 1606 and 1617) inherited Windhaag and Pragtal. On April 12, 1597, however, they had to sell the rule to the main creditor Lorenz Schütter von Klingenberg († 1599) in debt . Georg Schütter von Klingenberg and other people from the Schütter family followed as his sons and heirs. In 1636 they too had to sell Windhaag and Pragtal in debt.
Johann Joachim Enzmilner (1600–1678), who had made considerable wealth , finally followed as buyer of Windhaag and Pragtal . He had the new Windhaag Castle added immediately north of the old Windhaag Castle . His only surviving daughter Eva Magdalena Enzmilner (1629–1700) followed as heiress and owner of the two palaces Windhaag and Pragtal. She had become the first prioress of the Dominican convent in Windhaag. She had chosen monastery life against her parents' wishes.
The great inheritance led Eva Magdalena Enzmilner to build expensive monasteries - and she had her father's new Windhaag Castle torn down to the ground. In 1680 Pragtal Castle had to believe in it too. Eva Maria Enzmilner wrote literally in the foundation book of 1691:
“Due to the lack of stone for building the monastery and because it was too difficult for us to maintain the castle ( Prague Valley ) during construction, I resolved (determined) to have the same broken off completely and led out to the monastery; However, leave enough that a subject's house could be built, the same was given a lord's demand and called Pragatalerhäusl, in addition a fine stain to his emergency as well as a whole trunk of wood taken from the Krotentalerhof and donated to this house and donated to a weaver for 68 florins (guilders) sold"
Remnants of the south-western tower with vaulted cellar have been preserved from Pragtal Castle . They are installed in the Schanzbauergut. In addition, the granite edging of the castle fountain with the year 1564 was preserved in the area next to the Schanzbauergut.
description
The actual Pragtal Castle was a large square with an inner courtyard . The engraving by Clemens Beuttler gives a good picture of it and also lists the localities:
"1. Castle gate. 2. Goalkeeper's parlor. 3. Entrance hall and oven 4. Pit and roundabout. 5. Entrance and first stairs. 6. Badstüberl and living room. 7. First horse stable and prison . 8. Second stairs. 9. A large vault and roundabout. 10. Second horse stable. 11. Hay vault. 12. Main vault and large door in the basement and roundabout. 13. Entrance hall and main stairs. 14. Parlor. Dining vault in the roundabout. 15. Third horse stable. 16. Upper Chamber. 17. Parlor and Rondell. 18. Parlor. 19th Chamberlain 20. Hall and roundabout. 21. Confect (pastry) parlor. 22. Main kitchen. 23. Large room and roundabout. 24. Cabin. 25. Big gear. 26. Small parlor. 27. Dining room. 28. Larder. 29. Small corridor. 30. Grain soil. 31. The clock. 32. The fountain. 33. Large cellar, which encompasses two sides of the castle including the rondel . 34. Meat cellar. 35th Wall. "
Clemens Beuttler drew the wall as a square. In the current state of preservation, however, a circumferential polygonal earth wall with 8 to 9 corners and a diameter of around 150 meters can still be seen faintly.
In 1636, the castle included two days' work (0.68 hectares) of surrounding fields (meadow area) between the castle building and the earth wall. 20 days' work (6.8 ha) courtyard gardens, some with fruit trees. This also included a Weingarthäusl in which the Weinzierl lived. For a time, wine was made in this way on its own grounds. In 1636 these grounds had become fields again.
The Meierhof Pragtal was a large square with an inner courtyard. The engraving by Clemens Beuttler gives a good picture of it and again lists the localities:
"1. Meierstube. 2nd chamber. 3. Kitchen. 4. Entrance hall. 5. Vault of bread. 6. Sheepfold. 7. Rossstall. 8. Entrance. 9. Pigsty. 10. Wooden hut. 11. Barn and Gereidetenn (Gereideboden). 12. Rossstall. 14. Feeding house. 15. Well. Furthermore: 36th brickworks . 37. Brick furnace. 38. Wash pond. "
In the brick kiln, 10,000 bricks could be burned at the same time. In 1681 the bricks for the Windhaag monastery and the monastery church were still fired in Pragtal.
The real estate for the Meierhof was obtained by merging three farms : the outer and middle Krotental farms (Kraltenthal, Krottenthaler), the estate in Aichet (Aychholz). The farmers were donated . In 1636, the Meierhof Pragtal owned eight Tagwerk (2.7 ha) gardens in which, among other things, Brein ( millet , buckwheat ), carrots and hemp were grown. In addition there were 52 days 'work (17.7 ha) of fields, 43.5 days' work (14.8 ha) of meadows, one day's work (0.34 ha) of Tachet grounds (occurrence of pottery clay) at Lamplberg (Lembelbach) and Schröckhenberg (Schreckenberg).
Picture gallery
Coat of arms of the Prague
Pragtal 1667
Meierhof & Castle 1656
Castle 1656
Pragtal from the west 2019
Erdwall & Schanzbauergut
Castle fountain from 1564
Meiergut
literature
- Georg Grüll : History of the castle and the rule Windhag near Perg (Upper Austria). In: Upper Austrian Museum Association - Society for Regional Studies (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 87, Linz 1937, pp. 209, 227 and 258, PDF (12.9 MB) on ZOBODAT .
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1970, p. 278.
- Georg Grüll: Castles and palaces in the Mühlviertel. Birken-Verlag 1962.
- Mathaeus Merian: Topographia Provinciarum Austriacaru. Part III Topographia Windhagiana 1656, Ed .: Lucas Heinrich Wütherich, facsimile edition Bärenreiter-Verlag.
- Georg Matthäus Vischer : Topographia Austriae Superioris Modernae. 1674. Ed .: Anton Leopold Schuller, facsimile edition Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Graz, ISBN 3-201-01028-6 .
- Community of Windhaag near Perg: Heimatbuch Windhaag. Edition Windhaager traces.
Web links
- Community of Windhaag near Perg. Bulletin. Community homeland books
- Province of Upper Austria, DORIS cultural atlas, castles, palaces, ruins. Pragtal