Kolbenturm residence
| Kolbenturm residence | ||
|---|---|---|
 Kolbenturm (Tulfes) |
||
| Alternative name (s): | Tower to Gasteig | |
| Creation time : | 1247
(first documentary mention) |
|
| Castle type : | Motte (tower hill castle) | |
| Conservation status: | partly renovated, vacant | |
| Construction: | Humpback cuboid | |
| Place: | Vorderwald, municipality of Tulfes | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 16 '33.8 " N , 11 ° 32' 32.6" E | |
| Height: | 631 m | |
|
||
The Kolbenturm residence is located in the municipality of Tulfes in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol (Volderwaldstrasse 15). The name Kolbenturm did not appear until 1478. Before that, the facility was called Turm zu Gasteig , derived from the steep rise of the road passing by. The tower was presumably an outbuilding of Friedberg Castle and was used to monitor the Kuntersweg , as the old Roman road was called in the Middle Ages.
history
The tower was first mentioned in a document in 1247. At that time dominus Sigehardus Cholbus can be identified here, who also used the nickname de Gastaig . The Kolbes were knights in the entourage of the Bavarian Ministerials of the Lords of Freundsberg and later Ministeriale of the Prince, who can be traced back to Trento in 1166 . In the 14th century, the Kolbes moved their residence to Hall in Tirol or Innsbruck , where they appeared as citizens from 1362 until they died out around 1438. The last of the Kolbes from the Gasteiger line was Michael Kolb. The tower then fell to Duke Albert III as a completed fief . who awarded it to Ulrich von Ro (h) r and then to Georg Meillenstorffer. In 1390 the tower was bought by Hans von Passeyer. From the legacy of Hildebrand von Passeier, the tower came to the Jaufenberg line of Mr. Fuchs zu Fuchsberg in 1418. They sold the property to Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol in 1572 . In the Urbar proven income were in 1566 the provost court Amras allocated and revenue were the local princely royal household benefit.
In 1649 Archduke Ferdinand Karl was forced to pledge the Kolbenturm, which was only inhabited by a farmer, to the Vice President of the Chamber, Johann Michael Schmaus zu Angerzell. In 1651 it was converted into a free private residence as a residence . In 1672 it came into the possession of Maximilian Ernst von Coreth, court chamber councilor and secret trainee. The tower was considered uninhabitable from 1779, but remained in the possession of the Coreth family until 1834 . The Coreths sold the piston tower to Peter Unterlechner. His widow Anna, née Hochschwarzer, followed in 1836. The other owners were Joseph Wopfner, Müller and Sagschneider in Volders (1837); he sold the tower to the teacher Anton Knofler in 1840. He was followed by Josef Sparber (1853), the farmer Josef Arnold (1861) and in 1871 Franz Felder. In 1874 the tower came into the possession of the resident of Hall, August Attlmayr. In 1899 it finally went to the Proxauf family, whose descendants still own the tower today.
Piston tower today
The Kolbenturm stands on a low, artificially built-up hill, which towers over the surrounding fields by two to three meters. It has been preserved as a two-storey stump (it seems to have originally been higher) and, together with the farmyard to the east (the current building was built in the 16th century), forms the typical image of a medieval lower nobility seat. The tower of the type of the keep having an approximately square ground plan (9.0 × 9.1 m) and wehrhaftem character having a pyramid roof . The wall thickness is 1.5 m on the ground floor. The former high entrance to the upper floor at a height of around 4.5 m has been preserved as a 1.2 m wide and 2.1 m high niche and can be reached via a ladder. The current entrance on the east side was broken out at the end of the 19th century. The ground floor consists of roughly hewn hump ashlar -masonry, which indicates a time of origin to the 1200th In 1874 the intention was to demolish the tower; it was not carried out. In the 19th century it was expanded into a residence and renovated in 1956 and 1960 respectively.
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Tulfes, Kolbenturm, on the old road from Ampaß to Volders , p. 823.
- Oswald Trapp (and colleagues): Tiroler Burgenbuch. VI. Band - Middle Inntal . Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 1982, ISBN 88-7014-275-2 .
- Georg Clam Martinic : Castles and palaces in Austria. Landesverlag in Veritas Verlag, Linz 1991, ISBN 3-85214-559-7 .
Web links
- Entry via Kolbenturm to Burgen-Austria
- Kolbenturm on Tulfes-Tirol
- Piston tower on Burgen-Adi
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oswald Trapp, 1982, p. 239.