Winklberg Castle

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Castle Winklberg (often closed Winkelberg ) is from a Castle product derived today abgegangenes Castle in Mitterstockstall in the market town of Kirchberg am Wagram , in the district of Tulln in Lower Austria .

location

The hilltop castle , or the castle that was later expanded, was located on the so-called local mountain , commonly referred to as " Schloßberg ". The raised terrace is located 1200 meters east-northeast of the market town at the northern end of the village of Mitterstockstall. The Burgstall is located above the new castle on the local road, on a natural loess terrace of the Wagramabfall , on the orographic left bank of the Gießbach . The raised terrace is used for agriculture today , the surrounding height for viticulture .

history

The construction of the castle around 1250 is attributed to Ortlieb von Winkl , who managed his goods from here. A Leutold von Winkelberg is documented in 1288 . The church of St. Stefan am Wagram in neighboring Kirchberg served as a burial place for those von Winkl. In 1392 the Winklberg line died out with Weikard von Winkl and the inheritance passed through the sister of Weikard to the Lords of Hohenberg . In the 15th century, the Winkelberg lordship, consisting of the villages of Mitterstockstall , Neustift im Felde and the castle, passed to Messrs Hager zu Allensteig.In 1502, knight Sigmund von Hager zu Allensteig was mentioned as the owner of the castle. 1508 his son Wolfgang was named as the owner In 1529 it was besieged in the Turkish War but not conquered, in 1539 Wolfgang's stepbrother Sebastion Hager zu Allensteig was named as the owner. When the castle will then go to Balthasar Freiherr von Puchheim is not clear, but he is named as the owner when it was sold to Christoph von Trenbeck in 1549 . Presumably in 1556 the rule came to von Oberheim , in 1572 Christoph von Oberheim is owned, in 1582 or 1585 Georg von Oberheim is mentioned when selling it to Hans von Moser . In 1601 Margaretha von Rohrbach is called widowed Oberheim , who would have received the property from her sons. From 1606 to 1620 Hans Andrä von Stadel owned the castle and the manor, but because of his Protestant sentiments , he lost the property again and sold it to Michael Adolf Graf von Althan , who had converted to Catholicism . In 1629 or 1637 the property was donated by Althan to the Jesuit College in Krems , which carried out renovation work around 1700. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773, the property fell to the state property administration around 1800, which largely decayed the building.

description

A steel engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1672 shows "Winckhelperg Castle", which is probably the west side. It is not clear when the castle was redesigned to resemble a castle. The castle was evidently a stately, castle-like, polygonal and two-story building with dormers and a gable roof and was secured on both sides with towers. One of them was probably the five-story polygonal stair tower with a roof helmet in Spitz dome shape , the other tower is as nearly square dungeon to address, which is also far extended beyond the hall and a crenellated had wall ends without visible roof. Schweickhardt also mentions a two-part small stables , a wagon shed and a larger wine cellar .

The castle, enthroned on a nearly 20-meter-high castle hill, had a frontwork (possibly also referred to as a gatehouse ) with small oriel turrets and crenellated crowns and was secured by a wall-ditch-wall system . An associated chapel was dedicated to St. Achatius . On the road below the Schlossberg, the manor's Meierhof was built in 1715 .

The castle was in ruins at the end of the 18th century and completely demolished from 1820 for material extraction, with the Meierhof then being remodeled like a castle and today it is often referred to as the [new] Winkelberg Castle or Mitterstockstall Castle . Privatized from 1826, the site is still privately owned today. Only the Schlossberg remains of the castle as a truncated cone with a diameter of around 40 meters at the crown and a height of around 17 to 18 meters.

literature

  • Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian castles and palaces, Part II: North of the Danube. A. Hartleben Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1925 (1st edition), p. 60.
  • Richard Hübl: History of the market town of Kirchberg am Wagram. (Ed.) Marktgemeinde Kirchberg am Wagram, Kirchberg am Wagram 1993, p. 41 ff., P. 66 f., P 77 f., P. 101.
  • Hermann Schwammenhöfer: Archaeological Monuments III, quarter under the Manhartsberg. Vienna 1988, No. 62.
  • Franz Xavier Joseph Schweickhardt (Knight of Sickingen): Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens: through a comprehensive description of all castles, palaces, lordships, cities, markets, villages, rotten etc. Volume 7: Quarter under the Manhartsberg. Vienna 1835, therein: Winkelberg , pp. 232–234.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. also Winkelberg. kirchberg-wagram.at> History. (accessed March 2, 2018); with "e" also the new castle in the Austrian map and in the 2001 directory.
  2. ^ A b Franz Xavier Joseph Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens ... Volume 7: Quarter under Manhartsberg. Vienna 1835, p. 233.
  3. ^ A b c d e f Franz Xavier Joseph Schweickhardt (Knight of Sickingen): Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens ... Volume 7: Quarter under the Manhartsberg. Vienna 1835, p. 234.
  4. ↑ a b c Entry about Burgstall Winklberg on NÖ-Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era , University of Salzburg

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 14.4 "  N , 15 ° 54 ′ 52.2"  E