Moos-Schulthaus residence

The Moos-Schulthaus residence , sometimes called a castle , is located in Appiano in South Tyrol . Today it can be visited as a museum for medieval living culture.

history

The building was originally a rectangular defense tower and was erected before 1365 in the Eppan district of Moos (documented as early as 1328 as "in plebe Epiani in loco ubi dicitur Mos"). Henry III. von Rottenburg extended the tower to a residence with an L-shaped floor plan. Around 1550 the von Spaur family built another extension so that the floor plan was designed in a square manner. Another floor was added to the building. The last structural change took place around 1650, when a toilet was installed on the upper floor and the roof structure was changed.

The noble families Firmian , Gerstl, Spaur , Tann, Lanser and Schulthaus lived in the residence one after the other until it was sold into peasant hands.

The residence was bought and restored in 1958 by the Bolzano businessman and politician Walther Amonn . In the process, whitewashed secco paintings were discovered , which were subsequently exposed. Today's owner is the "Walther Amonn Foundation". Since 1983 the residence has been a museum for medieval living culture. In 2013 the administration was entrusted to the South Tyrolean Castle Institute .

Frescoes and inventory

Wall painting

In the entrance hall there are climbing motifs that were probably created between 1450 and 1500. In the adjoining hunting room, there are motifs that were probably executed by various traveling painters around 1400. The representation of the "cat-mouse war", in which the mice successfully fight the cats, goes back to an Egyptian legend. The motif was only painted in the entire Alpine region in Pürgg in Styria . There are also hunting scenes in which the hunting dogs in particular are made very lively. Furthermore, a tree can be seen, the fruits of which are phallic symbols that are collected by women and put in baskets.

The adjoining room is a bedroom with 17th century furniture. Folk art pieces are also exhibited here. An intact medieval kitchen with utensils can also be viewed.

Individual evidence

^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 243, no.440 .

literature

Helmut Stampfer : Moos: an Eppan aristocratic seat with late Gothic paintings (= castles . Volume 14 ). Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7954-3010-8 .
Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck : Tame and wild: Thematic tension and their (topographical) organization: The wall paintings of the hunting room of Castle Moos in Eppan , in: Literature and wall painting II. Conventionality and conversation, Burgdorfer Colloquium 2001 , ed. by Eckart Conrad Lutz , Johanna Thali and René Wetzel, Tübingen 2005, pp. 479-519.
August Emil Buch: High forts and palaces in Überetsch . Bozen 1903, p. 91 ff. Online

Web links

Commons : Moos-Schulthaus - Collection of Images

Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
South Tyrolean Castle Institute: Schloss-Moos-Schulthaus

46.453574 11.247516Coordinates: 46 ° 27 ′ 12.9 ″ N , 11 ° 14 ′ 51.1 ″ E

[1] Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 243, no.440 .