Ruine Schmirnberg

The ruins Schmirnberg (lubrication mountain ) located on a small wooded knoll in a sloping forest terrain to the north in the district of Castle Hill near the Slovenian border in southern Styria.

History

The castle is mentioned in 1250 as castrum Smilnburch in possession of a Hadmar of Schönberch first time, but should have been built in the 11th century by the clamping Heimern and gone as a gift in 1100 at the Kloster St. Paul. The corresponding rule at that time covered the whole area Leutschacher ( Lords of Liubschach, noble vassals of the pen) and also areas west and south of the Poßruck Hill ridge direction Drava. For Gesloß included a yard, which was early separated from the rule and subsequently developed to the castle Leutschach or Trautenburg.

St. Paul enfeoffed with the castle, the lords of Mureck that rhyme with extinct Bert II in 1245. Rhyme Bert's daughter Matilda took the castle and lordship to her husband Hadmar by Schoenberg, the authenticated 1250 repentant return of alienated goods to the diocese Seckau. 1255 compensated his widow Matilda the Monastery of St. Paul for wrongs suffered by Hadmar.

Around the year 1282 sold the Schönberger Schmirnberg to Count Ulrich von Heunburg whose Burggraf Marquard ( Merchel ) of Smielenburg until around 1300 often occurs in a document. A few years later, the castle was used as a dowry apparently freezing for Ulrich's daughter Elizabeth, whose first husband, Count Hermann von Pfannberg but already died in 1287.

1292 Count Ulrich played a leading role in the Styrian nobility I. uprising against Duke Albrecht; Lubricate mountain was conquered by the ducal troops returned in 1295. On June 22, 1297 to Traberg granted Elizabeth, widow of Count Hermann von Pfannberg that Hube to Chazfeldesdorf (now Kitzelsdorf ) and to Lodeine (Latin village, both near Oberhaag ) with all the mountain right after Eywanswalder ( Eibiswald ) Dimension - fief of Marquard originating from Smielenberg by the Counts of Pfannberg - the monastery Mahrenberg for Marquard's daughter Diemut, nun there, may be given.

1303 we find Elizabeth and her second husband Heinrich von Hohenlohe residing on Schmirnberg where they have geurkundet in March in favor of the Foundation of St. Paul. And also in 1322, the extinction of the male line Heunburger remained Schmirnberg - next Traberg and some top Irish Gülten - in their possession.

However, they sold, represented by Henry's brother, Count Friedrich von Hohenlohe, then Canons at Bamberg, on June 21, 1326 " Smyelenburch " by 3000 silver marks to Ulrich von Walsee; whose sons and Ulrich Friedrich shared in 1352 the possessions around the castle; after whose death came Schmirnberg to Eberhard of Walsee († 1363). In 1363 St. Paul Schmirnberg awarded to Duke Rudolf IV, after his death in 1365 to the Counts of Cilli.

King Frederick III. snatched Schmirnberg 1443 the Cilliern - his henchman Pankrazberg got beef Scheid " for his services from his youth " the castle - and made it 1445 to the princely fief and deposit rule with the District Court and blood jurisdiction. 1458 Leutschach became independent as the market and different from the direct administrative and judicial Schmirnbergs from.

A list of " Merung and Staigerung " of the subjects on the occasion of reforming exists from 1575 in 1575 ( with "List of Free Sponsor and Right ..."). 1575 new vaults were built, on which two granaries were built, newly built in 1577 the four-storey old floor with a large hall on the 4th floor.

In 1596, the castle appears as Kreidfeuerwarnstation in the defensive struggle against the Turkish threat.

To 1621 (selling by Emperor Ferdinand II ), the castle remained in landesfürstlichem possession. In the 17th century it was owned by the Stubenberger, from 1720 to 1912 in the possession of the Schönborn family.

The church was still used in the early 19th century, since the extensive, once heavily fortified complex is in ruins. From the walls that were up to 2.5 m thick are still remains to be seen.

In the northeast of the ruins are the remains of a chapel with the Annunciation of the Lord. This church was first mentioned in 1352.

Name variations

Smyelburch, Smilburch, Smiellnburch, Schmielnberg, Schmielenberg, Smiellenberg, Smiellnberg, lubricating mountain, lubrication mountain

Neighbors

Neighbors of Schmirnberg were the dominions Faal ( Fala ), Wild House ( Viltus, both in the Drau Valley ), Trautenburg, Arnfels, Witschein ( Svečina ), Rabenstein? (near St. Paul ), honorary Hausen, rhinestones, Marburg ( Maribor)

More owner of the castle

(or owners of parts of the rule, no guarantee):

Bailiwicks

• Parish Leutschach
• Church of St. Pancras whether the Lie (St. Pongratzen )
• Branch Church of the Holy Spirit ( Holy Ghost at the Osterberg, Sveti Duh na Ostrem vrhu )

Urbar

In the land register books include the following basic records:

• Market Leutschach
• Office Großwalz
• Office Small rolling
• Castle Office
• Reifnig ( Ribnica na Pohorju Reifing at Bachem )
• Balances Mayrhofen ( Vuzenica )
• Gatschenthal ( Gačnik )

Historical Maps