Helmstorf residence

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Helmstorf residence by Anton Robert Leinweber

The Helmstorf mansion , also known as Helmsdorf , is, together with the Holy Cross Chapel, a protected architectural monument in Völlan , a fraction of the market town of Lana in South Tyrol .

history

The residence was built around 1200 as a medieval residential castle. The first owners were the lords of Runks, a sideline of the lords of Braunsberg. The current name of the residence comes from the lords of Helmstorf who worked as butchers and innkeepers in Lana in the 15th century and were raised to the nobility in 1524. In the 16th century, the family acquired the tower with the outbuilding and had the complex enlarged and converted into a noble residence. In 1609 the associated Holy Cross Chapel was built. With the Reformation the family became Protestant and in some cases was forced to emigrate.

After the family died out in 1649 with Gaudenz Georg without descendants, the noble seat Helmstorf in Lana came to the Tändl through Anna Maria von Helmstorf, married Tändl, who from then on spelled Tändl von Helmstorf . At the end of the 17th century the residence was bequeathed to the Lords of Sagburg. Later Helmstorf went into rural possession.

description

The Romanesque defense tower with a gable roof from the 13th century is the last remnant of the medieval castle complex. The property with a recessed, pointed front door and square frame is decorated with wall paintings and a coat of arms frieze from 1564. The adjacent Holy Cross Chapel, built in 1607, has a rectangular window and a brick turret with a pyramid roof . In the interior there is an upright rectangular epitaph . The ceiling is provided with a groin vault. The renaissance altar dates from 1607.

Web links

  • Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol . Tyrolia-Verlag, 1968 ( google.de [accessed on October 21, 2017]).
  2. ↑ See: Tändl . In: Yearbook of the Imperial Heraldic Society "Adler" . 1. Vol. Vienna, 1891, p. 141.
  3. ↑ Beda Weber : Meran and its surroundings . BoD - Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95656-155-9 ( google.de [accessed October 21, 2017]).
  4. ↑ “The” diocese of Trento in general and the four upper deaneries of the German part: Schlanders, Meran, Passeyer and Lana along with the pastoral care stations of the German communities on the Nonsberg in particular . 1866 ( google.de [accessed on October 21, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Adolph Schaubach: The German Alps for locals and foreigners described by Adolph Schaubach: The middle and southern Tyrol . F. Frommann, 1867 ( google.de [accessed October 21, 2017]).
  6. ^ Leo Andergassen : Renaissance altars and epitaphs in Tyrol . Universitätsverlag Wagner, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7030-0417-9 ( google.de [accessed on October 21, 2017]).

Coordinates: 46 ° 36 ′ 32.9 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 26.2"  E