Schwedenschanze (Achatzberg)

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Burgstall-Schwedenschanze Achatzberg with Clam Castle in the background of the right half of the picture

The Schwedenschanze of Achatzberg located east of Burg Clam in the district Achatzberg the community Klam in the lower Mühlviertel. The Wallburg was built in the Iron or Hallstatt Period . It may also have had a protective function at the time of the Hussite invasion in 1422. Towards the end of the Thirty Years War , the fortifications were renewed to control the Klamschlucht and to ward off a possible attack by the Swedes.

location

Klamburg seen from the Achatzberg district

The Burgstall is located at the summit of a natural rock formation that juts out to the west, steeply and high into the Klambach Gorge. The opposite Clam Castle on the western flank of the gorge is at about the same height and is only 150 to 200 meters as the crow flies from the Burgstall. In the event of war, the occupation of this strategic point was important, on the one hand to control the Klamschlucht and on the other hand to prevent cannon fire at the nearby Clam Castle.

description

The core of the facility is a 32 by 20 meter oval plateau. An approximately 250 meter long and 3 meter high wall leads from this castle stable in a long semicircle to a second small weir in the southwest. Various observations suggest that the ring wall is the remains of a ruined, massive ring wall.

The southern slope is secured by two to three additional ramparts. Between the mighty ring wall and the uppermost rampart there is an approximately 5 meter wide base ditch.

Nothing is known about the former interior development. In any case, guards could set up camp within the oval castle stables or the ring wall. The complex could be the second castle of Klam ("duo castra Chlamme"), which was owned by the Lords of Machland in 1149/1150 . It offered an excellent view of the gorge. Nowadays it is overgrown by tall trees.

History of exploration

In the 1930s, a local researcher from Grein found decorated vessel fragments with cube-eye patterns that refer to the Hallstatt period.

In 1978, Wladimir Obergottsberger prepared a survey plan that gives a good overview of the complex system.

leisure

The Schwedenschanze or the Burgstall is not signposted, there is no marked route to it and no information about it in tourist advertising material. You can reach this jump on forest roads. There is parking at the adjacent "FriedWald Clam" to the south.

See also

literature

  • Christian K. Steingruber : New findings on Norbert Grabherr's historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. 65th year, 2011, issue 1/2, p. 25f, entire article p. 3–44, PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
  • Dehio-Handbuch Die Kunstdenkmäler Austria, Upper Austria Mühlviertel. Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-362-3 , p. 366.

Web links

Commons : Schwedenschanze Achatzberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Steingruber 2011, p. 25.
  2. ↑ a b c d Castle building in Upper Austria in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, with a plan of the "Burgstall" at Clam.
  3. ↑ "Item duo castra Chlamme. Item duo Castra Plasenstein “in the Passau Traditionscodex, 13th century. In: Alfred Höllhuber : " ... duo castra Plasenstein ... "- The two castles bladder stone (a contribution to determining their location - with a report). In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 124, Linz 1979, p. 69, entire article, p. 67-104, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 8 ″  N , 14 ° 46 ′ 51.4 ″  E