Wielandsdorf

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Wielandsdorf , also called or written at different times, Wielensdorf , Wilantisdorf , Wilantesdorf , villa Weilandi , Weilnstorf , Wielensdorf and Wyelesdorf , was a village with about 50 inhabitants in 1360 in the Korneuburg district in Lower Austria . The village was abandoned at the end of the 15th century and is only present as a local desert . The deserted area has been a listed building since 2014 .

Geographical location

Wielantisdorf deserted area

The Wielandsdorf deserted area is located 8 km north of Korneuburg in the Rohrwald on the cadastral area of Rückersdorf in Lower Austria. The settlement area and the corridors of the former village are forested. The forms of former arable land, so-called field devastation, are still recognizable in the area of ​​the vineyards Probstholz, Hanfthal, Hochberg and “Bei der broad Linde”. There are also some deeply cut old paths leading to the village square in the terrain. The "Schwedenhöhlen" (Sweden Caves), which are located approx. 400 m to the south-east, and the earth stables near Hanfthal to the west, are likely to have served as places of refuge. In the literature, a truncated cone called a "rotunda" is also mentioned. The artificially formed truncated cone lies southeast over the Hanfthal on the edge of the ridge.

The village, which covered an area of ​​around 450 by 150 meters, lay on both sides of a source brook of the Rohrbach , at the intersection of several old paths that were still recorded on the Josephine land survey of 1773/81.

history

Wielandsdorf

Wielandsdorf was first mentioned in 1114 under the name "villa Weilandi" and in 1120. Um Eberhard von Stallarn, a follower of the Formbach family on Kreuzenstein , hands over the “Wilantesdorf” property to Klosterneuburg around 1200 . In 1258 Klosterneuburg appears with an office in Wielandsdorf. According to the land register of Klosterneuburg Abbey, the village had 15 fiefdoms in 1258  . In the traditional books of the monastery appear "Pabo de Wielantsdorf" (FRA II / 28) and "Ulrich de Wilantsdorf" (FRA II / 4, no. 189) and, added in the 14th century, "Phillipus de Wielansdorf" (FRA II / 28,128), which also make a corresponding seat probable. In 1360 Wielandsdorf had 18 fiefdoms and around 50 residents. The village also had its own economic office of the Klosterneuburg Monastery, to which the Niederhollabrunn fiefs were also subordinate.

As early as 1312 the village was mentioned as deserted. In the first half of the 15th century, however, Balthasar and Stephan Wilestorfer appear, suggesting a temporary resettlement. In the late 15th century, due to the Hungarian invasions of that time, the final desolation took place. An unusually large number of iron objects such as crossbow bolts and lead balls discovered during excavations also indicate the violent destruction of the village.

Wielandsdorf desert

Location of the former Wielandsdorf in the Rohrwald

In 1512 there were still walls, the Klosterneuburg land register from 1512 reports that Probst Georg II von Klosterneuburg has visited the place: “has found the village and the field very desolate, and this time there is nothing at the ends but solid earth, walls and wood overgrown with large trees that you can hardly drive through and ride ”. Even an entry from 1561 only describes a “desolate village”.

In 1927 50 "residential buildings" were recognized, some by remnants, and some by dowsers. After 1930 the forest administration had the foundation walls removed, “The plow went over the cleared ground; corn and potato fields followed, and today there is a young forest culture where Wielensdorf once was. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Articles on Medieval Archeology in Austria 9/1993 ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Austrian Society for Medieval Archeology @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.univie.ac.at
  2. ↑ Fontes rerum Austriacarum (FRA) II / 59, 191, No. 38
  3. ↑ Entry about Wielandsdorf on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
  4. ↑ Leaves for regional studies of Lower Austria, ed. from the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, 1881/15, 365/66
  5. ^ Lower Austrian Provincial Archives, State Archives, old valid deposit, UWV 7
  6. ↑ Small messages. In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. 21, 1928, p. 195 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  7. ↑ Our home S160 - F. Zeißl 1952

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 40 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 4 ″  E