Aichberg residence
The Aichberg residence (also called Aichberg Castle ) is located in Appiano in South Tyrol . The name of the residence can be traced back to the Aichner family who owned it in the 17th century.
history
In 1570 Jakob Aichner , who came from Kurtinig , took over the neighboring Paschbach residence . In 1570 Aichberg was owned by the Lanser family, who were wealthy in Eppan. In the same year the residence passed to Nikolaus Leys, who was married to David Lanser's eldest daughter (the complex is said to have been called Hof auf dem Paschbach at that time ). Nikolaus Leys was ennobled in 1613 with the title of Paschbach . In 1625 Valentin Christof von Aichner (1632 noble to Aichner von Paschbach zu Aichberg ) took over the residence. A major renovation was carried out under Valentin Christof, as evidenced by a coat of arms with an inscription on the wedge stone in the west portal of the tower ( VCAVP and the year 1630 ). The originally two-story extension for residential purposes at the southeast corner, through which today's access to the inner courtyard is, also dates back to this time.
As a result, the owners changed several times: in 1740 the residence came to the Lords of Eyberg in Schwaz , in 1776 to Leopold Adam von Wenser, and in 1860 to Johann Klotz. Around 1879 Josef Heinrich von Zastrow-Sängerhoff (the Zastrows were a founding family who immigrated from the Westphalian Sengerhof in Dinker ) acquired the residence, which he had rebuilt between 1870 and 1875 in the historicism style. He also had a north-facing extension of the east wing made with a large cellar room (wine cellar) and a Marienkapelle above. In 1875 Johann Hintner created paintings of the Madonna and Child on the chapel on the ground floor facing north. At the main entrance there is a fresco by Peter Fellin from 1950 with St. George slaying the dragon.
Around 1920, Franz Tausend was master of the residence. After the Second World War, the Aichberg residence was owned by Countess Caroline Forni. From 1965 the residence was run as a hotel by the Counts Khuen-Belasi . In 2012, Aichberg passed to the Pichler family via Kaufweg.
Aichberg today
The oldest part of Aichberg is the three-storey tower (side lengths 7.5 and 8.5 m, wall thickness 1.5 m) in the northwest wing of the complex. The tower with its dovetail pinnacles reaches a height of 12 meters. A bricked-up high entrance indicates that this was a late Romanesque defense tower from the 14th century. In the 15th century the tower was extended to the east with a building (with a barrel-vaulted smoke kitchen ). A green-glazed tiled stove in the ground floor accessible from the courtyard indicates a servants' room. In the Renaissance period (around 1630) Aichberg was rebuilt (for example a double-arched window on the valley-facing hallway). In the baroque period , individual parts of the complex (east wing and south-east extension) were increased. At that time the embankment walls were also built on the south and west facades of the tower.
Under the Khuen-Belasi, further modifications and extensions were made, e.g. B. Instead of the farm building west of the tower, a guesthouse was set up.
literature
- Martin Laimer: Aichberg Castle. From medieval residential tower and farm to aristocratic seat. In: Südtiroler Burgeninstitut (Ed.): Castles Perspectives. 50 years of the South Tyrolean Castle Institute, 1961–2013. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7030-0838-2 , pp. 331–342.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Donor families ( Memento from July 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed August 29, 2017.
- ↑ Schloss Aichberg on icastelli.net , accessed August 29, 2017.
Web links
- Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Coordinates: 46 ° 27 ′ 35.5 ″ N , 11 ° 15 ′ 9.6 ″ E