Mühlburg residence
The Mühlburg mansion , also called Pfusser Gschlössl or Turm in Pfuss , is one of the earliest and most beautiful examples of the so-called Überetscher architectural style and is located in Pfuss , a fraction of the market town of Kaltern in South Tyrol ( Italy ).
location
At the upper edge of Pfuss , a small district of Kaltern , lies the Mühlburg residence , hidden between houses . The "Gschlössl" - as it is popularly known - at the foot of the Mendel at 544 meters above sea level, stood alone until 100 years ago, between a small stream - the Pfusser Lahn - and the group of houses around the St. Rochus Church. The Mühlburg manor, along with the Campan manor, is recorded as a noble estate in the Atlas Tyrolensis - the first map of the state of Tyrol based on a geodetic survey and which represents one of the most important international cartographic achievements of the 18th century.
history
The property was first mentioned in 1231; the residential tower was originally known as the "Tower in Pfuss" (also known locally as "Pfußer Gschlössl" or "Schlössl" for short). It was the Lords of Morenberg who had the manor converted into a manorial residence called Mühlburg and who also lived there. The Morenberg came from Sarnonico am Nonsberg and were originally called de Moris. In 1510, Emperor Maximilian I von Habsburg, known as the last knight, awarded them the title of nobility from Morenberg. In the period around 1600 they owned the Morenberg residence in Sarnonico, the entire area on the Mendel Pass including the inn, the Windegg agricultural estate and the Mühlburg residence in Kaltern. In 1584, the Italian architect and builder Silvestro del Gallo, who worked in Kaltern, and the stonemason Bernardo Pariano rebuilt the "Tower in Pfuss" for Johann Anton von Morenberg to its present form as a stately residence. After the death of the eldest son Friedrich and thus the extinction of the noble family of the Morenberg, the building was passed on to his widow Maria Brigitta von Arz in 1628, who soon married Baron Karl Colonna von Völs.
In 1664 the small mansion passed to the Barons Käßler von Boymont, who also used the building as a residence after Boymont Castle burned down. The last noble owner was Karolina, nee Countess von Wolkenstein, who sold the residence to a certain Jakob Wally in 1801. This ended after 200 years the “aristocratic” time of the “Schlössl” in Pfuss. From then on, the residence was in civil and rural ownership, which it is still today. According to oral tradition, the property served the Kaiserjäger of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy as a temporary storage facility on their retreat and in the era of fascism under Mussolini as an illegal catacomb school , in order to guarantee the instruction of pupils in their German mother tongue despite the prohibition.
Today the residence is only partially inhabited.
literature
- Johann Jakob Staffler : The princes of Tyrol . Wagner 1827, p. 93
- Franz K. Zoller: Alphabetical-topographical paperback of Tyrol and Vorarlberg . Wagner 1827, p. 170
- Johann Jakob Staffler: Tyrol and Vorarlberg: in 2 parts . Rauch 1846, p. 800
- Beda Weber : The city of Bolzano and its surroundings . Eberle 1849, p. 467
- W. Braumüller: Austrian wisdom . W. Braumüller 1888, p. 294
- BG Teubner: Journal for German Studies . BG Teubner 1926, p. 491 and p. 493
- Nicolò Rasmo : Art in South Tyrol, A selection of the most beautiful works . Bozen 1976, p. 231
- Bruno Mahlknecht : Kaltern and the surrounding area . Athesia Bozen 1979
- Werner Köfler: Land, Landschaft, Landtag: History of the Tyrolean Landtag from the beginnings to the repeal of the constitutional constitution in 1808 . Universitätsverlag Wagner 1985, p. 613
- Josef Weingartner : The Art Monuments of South Tyrol, Volume 2 . Bolzano 1991, p. 75
Web links
- Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
- Entry on the Mühlburg residential tower in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Coordinates: 46 ° 24 '42.4 " N , 11 ° 13' 53.9" E