St. Ulrich Castle in the Mühlkreis

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Local chapel of St. Ulrich im Mühlkreis

The St. Ulrich Castle was located in the municipality of the same name, St. Ulrich im Mühlkreis, in the Rohrbach district of Upper Austria .

history

Sanct Ulrich or Gad Ura ("Gad" is the honorary title of a saint in the Mühlviertel) is first mentioned in 1185. Ortisei was the headquarters of the Schallenbergers , who called themselves St. Ulricher before the Schallenberg Fortress was built. 1197 a Heinricus de Sancto Udalrico is called. From 1260 this noble family was called von Schallenberg ( Heinricus de Salchinberc dictus Sancto Ulrico ). In 1345 the law of Ortisei is mentioned. In 1427 this castle was destroyed by the Hussites , whereupon the Schallenbergers built a new castle next to the ruins, today's Hoftaverne. This was in their possession until 1660.

Location of St. Ulrich Castle east of the Pühringer property

Ortisei Castle today

Apart from the remains of the former castle chapel, today's local chapel, no significant traces of the castle have survived. The crypt slab of the Schallenberg hereditary burial is set in front of the steps of the altar. The main nave of the church was demolished under Emperor Josef II , and the Gothic presbytery was preserved .

The castle was about 0.15 km northeast of the village chapel, and not between the church and the tavern, as is sometimes reported. The complex known locally under the name "Räuberhügel" is still clearly recognizable in the Franziszeischen cadastre as a wooded hill east of the property vulgo Pühringer. During excavation work in the 1960s, masonry two meters thick, a vault and a cellar were found. In the latter, various found objects (counters, stirrups, spurs) were discovered, but simply thrown away in misjudgment of their value. The building objects were filled with soil and leveled. Remains of the castle can still be found in the former castle tavern (today the St. Ura tavern ).

  • photos

  • Castle tavern of St. Ulrich im Mühlkreis

  • Tavern sign of the St. Ura Castle tavern

literature

  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home . 3. Edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-157-5 .
  • Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria, Volume 1: Mühlviertel . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1962.
  • Matthias Höfer: Etymological dictionary of the dialect used in Upper Germany: excellent but common in Austria. Verlag Joseph Kastner, 1815 (Google eBook: Digitized on April 3, 2009)
  • Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Höfer, 1815, p. 259.
  2. ↑ Christian Steingruber, 2013, p. 346.

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '18.3 "  N , 14 ° 2' 40.3"  E