Therasburg Castle
| Therasburg Castle | ||
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 Therasburg Castle Lower Austria postcard 1924 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Teraczpurch, Teraspurch, Teraspurig, Terazpurch, Terisburg, Terrasburg, Terraspurg, Theresburg | |
| Creation time : | around 1320 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Received or received substantial parts | |
| Standing position : | Domination | |
| Place: | Theras | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 42 '54.7 " N , 15 ° 46' 36.9" E | |
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The Therasburg Castle in Lower Austria stands west of the town of Pulkau in the cadastral community of Theras on a ridge above the Therasburger Bach on the left side of the western Pulkau valley .
history
13th to 15th centuries
The first known documentary mention is in 1327 as Ortlieb Zvendel von Teraczpurch. At the end of the 14th century, the castle fell directly to the Counts of Hardegg-Plain. It was the estate of Berthold II, Burkhards III and Johann II. In 1430 Jan von Fladnitz is attested as the keeper of the Counts of Hardegg . Robber barons Kratzer used them from 1473 for forays, among other things, to the nearby Rittsteig.
16th to 18th century
In 1523 the castle was imperially conquered. In 1574 the knight Jakob von Raming, Colonel, converted it into a Renaissance castle. In 1645 it was destroyed by Swedish troops under General Lennart Graf Torstensson during the Thirty Years' War . In 1674 Georg Julius Freiherr von Gilleis, also owner of the lordship of Missingdort and Kattau, came into the possession of Therasburg.
19th to 20th century
In 1823 Joseph Graf von Gilleis is listed as the owner. The last of the Gilleis family , Julius von Gilleis, leased and later sold Therasburg to his son-in-law, Count Hermann von Attems, Baron von Heiligenkreuz . In 1842 the castle, which had not been inhabited for about 150 years, was restored. During the redesign, Hermann Eduard Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz had the tower re-roofed and the second floor of the main building removed. Restored in 1893 by Maximilian Graf von Attems-Gilleis . with a new bay window and a newly built second castle tower. On July 6th, 1903 the excursion of the Lower Austrian Forestry Association took place at the Waldhäuschen. During the Second World War , the holdings of the University Library of the University of Vienna as well as the important reference works of the catalog room of the Austrian National Library were housed here, as in Schloss Horn, Schloss Rosenburg and more than ten other locations - the other books were distributed across eight other locations.
description
Therasburg consists of a stone bridge with the remains of the former drawbridge over the moat, a two-story main castle with a round arched portal with a white sandstone frame and a separate tower. The building is under monument protection by decision of the Federal Monuments Office . The ogival pedestrian access of the former gate entrance has been preserved and you can see from the details that a former drawbridge existed. A two-arched bridge now crosses the neck ditch, which was probably used as a former quarry for the castle. In the valley, the Therasburger Bach flows around it, a direct feeder to the Pulkau .
forestry
The management used to be done in plenter operations in contrast to today's removal of bark beetles damaged areas, drought, wind and snow breaks. The first forest management was carried out in 1897: The predominant wood species in the high forest was white pine , then spruce , sometimes also fir , and also oak , linden and birch . In the coppice they were oak, linden , birch and willow . The forest floor is of medium quality. The weathering product of gneiss and shimmer slate. Large areas of former fields were afforested at the turn of the century. There was a separate tree nursery for planting.
Surroundings
Neighboring castles and palaces are the ruins Nonneck in Pulkau , Baroque castle Riegersburg , Castle Fronsburg and Castle Schrattenthal .
Trivia
Mr. Kaudelka, administrator in Therasburg, harvested 3.8 kg of soybeans from 300 yellow soybeans in 1876. An imposing larch in the Therasburger Valley is named after the manager.
In June 2010, lightning struck the bridge and explosively destroyed the wing wall on the south side.
literature
- Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria north of the Danube. Edited by Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle u. a. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 .
- Georg Binder: The Lower Austrian Castles and Palaces Volume 2. Hartleben, Vienna 1925, p. 57.
- Georg Clam Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Landesverlag Linz 1991/1994, ISBN 3-85214-559-7 , p. 197.
- Erich Gschweidl: Theras: 700 years of membership in Wilhering Abbey; 880 years first documentary mention by the Parish Council Theras, Festschrift, 1991.
- Roman Zehetmayer: The land register of Count Burkhard III. von Maidburg-Hardegg from 1363 . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2001, ISBN 3-205-99394-2 .
- Austrian art topography , published by the kk central commission for art and historical monuments, volume V. The monuments of the political district of Horn in Lower Austria . on commission from Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna, 1911.
Web links
- Entry on Therasburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about Therasburg Castle in Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Therasburg on Burgen-Austria
- Forest Management of Therasburg Castle
Individual evidence
- ^ The land register of Count Burkhard III. Von Maidburg-Hardegg from 1363: With an introduction to the structure of the Grafschaft Hardegg in the 14th century, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2001, p. 81
- ↑ "Handbook of the personnel status of the entire dominions in Austria under the Enns", Ignaz-Peregrin Ainsidl, Hirschfeld, 1823, p. 136.
- ↑ Note on entrance portal Therasburg
- ↑ Centralblatt for the entire forestry 1904 p. 253
- ^ "Art theft, art salvage and restitution in Austria 1938 to today", Bernadette Reinhold, Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 1999
- ^ The Austrian National Library , Austrian National Library, H. Bauer-Verlag, 1948
- ↑ Centralblatt for the entire forestry 1904 p. 257
- ^ Friedrich Haberlandt - History of his work with soybeans and soyfoods (1876-2008): Extensively annotated bibliography and sourcebook p. 19
- ↑ Owner's documents.