Zagging Castle
The former Zagging Castle from the 11th and 12th centuries was the focus of various ruling families for a long time. It is located in the market town of Obritzberg-Rust in the middle of the fertile Fladnitztal , St. Pölten district , Lower Austria , and was demolished around 1800.
history
The current place name Zagging (earlier spellings: Zekking, Zekkinge, Zägging) is derived from a "Zakko" documented around 960.
Mathilde, Heinrich and Sigboto von Zagging, who lived in the first half of the 12th century, were still freelancers and guardians of the Herzogenburg Monastery and sometimes also important personalities. Sighart (around 1170) and Konrad (1239–1262) were sovereign ministerials , and Konrad in particular enjoyed the firm trust of King Ottokar , as he appointed him twice as a personal representative in Passau's church commissions. On the other hand, it robbed and pillaged Salzburg properties in the area ( Grünz , Wölbling ).
In the middle of the 13th century Heinrich III. have rebuilt the Zagging Castle.
1284 Schauberger came through exchange with the monastery of St. Pölten in the possession of the Zaggingern loaned fiefs .
Konrad's daughter, Gertrud von Zagging, married Otto von Arnstein (d. 1276). As a result, the prince ministers of Arnstein (from the vicinity of Heiligenkreuz) owned the castle in Zagging until 1323. In 1323 you were followed by Heinrich ("Marschall") von Pappenheim, whose son Friedrich Marschall von Pappenheim in turn sold Zagging in 1354 to his brother-in-law Rudolf von Losenstein.
The next owner became Ruenhart von Ranna (Rana) in 1379 through purchase from niece Elsbeth, Eberhard's widow von Wallsee and her relative von Maissau. In 1389 Johann von Ranna renounced in favor of Hans Schenk von Ried. Johann von Neydegg, his son-in-law, won the castle for his family, but gave it to Pernhart von Pöbring (d. 1428) as an after-fief . In 1401 he took his previously free castle Zagging as a fief from the sovereign, before it was sold in 1491 by Leopold von Neydegg auf Ranna (Rana) to the brothers Jakob and Christoph Grabner zu Rosenburg and Pottenbrunn . On September 19 of this year, the newly built castle chapel was also consecrated by the auxiliary bishop of Bishop Wigileus of Passau, Bernhard, episcopus libanensis on the special order of the diocesan bishop. It had three altars: the high altar was dedicated to St. George , the right side altar to St. Martin and the left to honor St. John the Baptist , Dionysius and Barbara . The day of the consecration of the church was determined to be the Sunday after Martini, on which indulgence was also granted at certain times.
During this time the castle was probably already developed into a fortress , as Georg (Jörg) Grabner zu Rosenburg zu Rosenburg and Zagging (died 1562) called the castle a "fortress". The bastions depicted on an engraving by Vischer from 1674 should have existed at that time .
Zagging came to the ruling family of Jörger von Tollet as a result of the marriage of Georg's daughter Elisabeth Grabner zu Rosenburg with Helmhart VIII. Jörger. The Jörger von Tollet , like the Grabner, were also zealous Protestants , which led to violent conflicts with the Herzogenburg Abbey, the diocese of Sankt Pölten and the imperial family (see Kleinhain parish church ).
The Jörger from Tollet in Zagging
The Jörger were exceptionally successful economists because, in addition to their Upper Austrian estates, they also acquired the lordships of Araburg , Bergau, Hohenberg and Kreisbach in Gölsen and Traisental in Lower Austria . From places around Ober-Grafendorf , Hausenbach in the Dunkelsteinerwald, via Statzendorf , Kuffern, Walpersdorf and Zagging, their property extended with Pottenbrunn , Gutenbrunn and Judenau into Tullnerfeld . They also had properties in Vienna; Among other things, Protestant services were held in the Jörgerschloss Hernals for the Viennese Protestant church services.
Under Helmhart Jörger (1530–1594), zagging was magnificently expanded. During this time the saying falls: “Freiherr von Jörger - the longer, the worse”, because he exploited the farmers. Helmhart was considered one of the richest aristocrats because even Emperor Maximilian II was dependent on his credit. He also founded his own music school in Zagging for four boys under the Protestant Preceptor Valentin Haugg from Altenburg near Meissen. The castle chapel ( St. George ), newly built in 1502, was considered desecrated due to the Protestant services . Catholic services were not permitted again until 1685.
Helmhart Jörger became President of the Court Chamber in 1568, who ran a magnificent court. On the occasion of his second wedding with Judith von Liechtenstein, the town council of Traismauer got 100 men, double mercenaries and hookers with red and white standards on their feet for the festivity in Zagging .
An exchange with Walpersdorf came about when Barbara, the daughter from her first marriage, married her cousin Hans Jörger. Hans, a Protestant champion of the gentry, received zagging.
Because Jörger refused to obey the imperial orders, Zagging Castle was occupied and confiscated by imperial troops in 1622 . The interior fittings such as wallpaper, Turkish and Dutch carpets, damask ceilings, and taffeta curtains, some of which were from the imperial court, remained with Barbara Jörger. The Zagging rule was bought back for 40,000 guilders after a few years by their sons, Hans Hel Reich and Hans Max.
Hans Helreich Jörger continued his resistance to the now forced recatholicization on his lords. Only his son Johann Quintin Jörger (1624–1705) was able to restore the old reputation of his house. This Johann Quintin Jörger (the “honest one”) also did a great job as governor for the city of Vienna , because in 1688 he ordered public street lighting and banned the carrying of weapons. A new fire order , the introduction of a measure and weight order and a newly introduced service order brought peace and order to the city. After the Turkish year, he also donated 20 masses in the patronage church of Hain, which was part of the rulership. He was the last significant representative of his family and became a knight for the "Golden Fleece" . His daughter Maria Josepha was married to the Vienna defender Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg .
Johann Josef Graf Jörger († 1739), who mostly lived in Vienna, had to have the castle restored after the devastating fire of 1721. The last male Jörger committed in 1772 in Graz suicide .
Castle description
According to Vischer's engraving in 1674, there was a three-storey square and, apart from it, a chapel with a tower and hook-shaped extension on the flat castle grounds within the curtain wall . On the outside of the curtain wall ran a moat that was fed by the nearby Fladnitz . A bridge spanned the moat from a gate tower in the east.
According to Vischer's engraving, the curtain wall may have had a star-shaped hill with five protruding corner bastions. The west and south sides are straight and can still be seen today. Three bastions face northeast, north, and northwest. The northern front, the longest at 220 m, had a central bastion.
The end of the castle
Zagging was sold to the Kuefstein from Viehofen as early as 1745, with the result that Zagging Castle lost its function as the center of power and fell into disrepair.
The building was demolished in 1800 to save the high maintenance costs. The roofing had already been removed because of the roof tax , which accelerated the decay considerably. The Viehofen Castle , which towers over the city of Sankt Pölten , was built from the remains of the wall of Castle Zagging . After economic decline, this castle was ultimately devastated by the Russians in World War II , but has since been privately renovated again.
You can still see the former tavern in house no. 11 (former Gasthaus Müllner) in the immediate vicinity of Castle Zagging: the year 1676 in the wedge of the round arch of the east door, the year 1677 in the stone arch of the south gate. The interior is still there partially arched.
Farm No. 14 (former Meierhof of the castle, later Schafhof), located south of the Burgstall , was sold in 1936 by the Counts of Kuefstein auf Viehofen to the Krumböck family. Remnants of the former building can still be seen in some rooms. It is located west of state road 100 (50 m west of the statue of St. John of Nepomuk ). The castle stable measures 4 yokes with the girdling water ditch, and 2 yokes without ditches. The Burgstall is also called "Teichacker". It forms a flat surface with no building remains. The eastern and most of the northern trench were filled in.
Excavations
In the summer of 2004, the remains of the foundation walls of the old castle from the 11th and 12th centuries, which was once the most powerful castle in the region, were uncovered during emergency excavations . Since the building was in the groundwater, thick wooden beams were placed at the bottom, on which the stone walls came to rest. The use of a suitable mortar made this foundation wall "hard as concrete". The floor of the cellar was laid with round stones, the cellars as such were vaulted. Some interesting finds have been made, such as parts of a Gothic vault or a brick cellar staircase. A continuation of the excavations is currently not planned.
Brick cellar stairs
Stone covering of the floor
Overview of the excavations
Excavation of Zagging Castle in 2004
Bibliography
- Andreas Kaiser, Wolfgang Payrich: Festschrift 200 years of the parish Hain , 1983, Herzogenburg Abbey
- Home register of the community of Obritzberg-Rust, 1988
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Großrust.at website - Grabner chapter ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 56 " N , 15 ° 38 ′ 45.1" E