Ruin Schaunburg, Austria

RUIN SCHAUNBURG We like to invite you to this phantastic ruin!. Shot with the GoPro, Canon and Mavic Air, includes timelapses and a lot of aerial shots. . The ruin Schaunberg (also Schaumberg, Schaumburg and Schaunburg) is located in the village Schaumberg the municipality Hartkirchen, Eferding district in Upper Austria. She was the ancestral castle of the Counts of Schaunberg and seat of the county Schaunberg. . Today's ruin of the hill castle was the largest castle in Upper Austria. The ruins can be visited, the keep was opened by a newly built staircase. . Name Schaunburg The name derives from the view ("looking from the mountain"). In addition, even in official map works (such as the Austrian Map 1: 50,000) the name Schaunburg is used. Also Hartkirchen is officially called Schaunburggemeinde. Historically documented are also the spellings Schamberg and Schaumburg, which can also be found in the name of the district Schaumberg, in which the castle ruins lie. These old spellings also correspond to the still common pronunciation in Hausruckviertel dialect, namely Schamberg or Schamburg for the castle ruins and Schamberger for the former count family. . History of Schaunberger The Schaunberger came from the family of the noble Julbach and were related in the female line with the Counts of Formbach -Vichtenstein. They had received from Emperor Barbarossa the toll at Aschach on the Danube, a very profitable Reichslehen. In the middle of the 12th century, Heinricus de Scovenberch built a castle about an hour's drive from Aschach. In a document from the year 1316, the Schaunberger designate themselves as counts and strove for their county Schaunberg imperial immediacy. However, Duke Rudolf IV encouraged his follower Eberhard von Wallsee to build a second castle (Burg Oberwallsee) across from the Danube, Schaunberg Castle. . More information about the ruin at Wikipedia