Rofenstein residence

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Rofenstein residence in Imst

The Rofenstein residence is located in the town of Imst in the state of Tyrol (Stadtplatz 1). Today, in the building which is Bezirkshauptmannschaft of Imst housed.

history

In 1266 Konradin , the last legitimate male heir from the Staufer dynasty, bequeathed this area to his stepfather Meinhard II of Tyrol. The Imst tower is mentioned for the first time in 1296. The tower is likely to be related to the establishment of the Imst judicial district by Count Meinhard II of Görz-Tirol. This high court included the area between St. Petersberg and Arlberg , as well as the Pitz and Gurgl valleys .

Invoices from the Imst judge Christanus have been preserved from 1298, and the tower was probably enclosed by a circular wall. There is also talk of building material ad domum Vmst propre turrim , i.e. H. there must have been a residential building ( Palas ) near the tower. At the beginning of the 14th century the tower is also known as the castrum . 1377 is called a turen auf dem Rofen .

The building has always been used as the seat of the court. However, this did not prevent the sovereigns from pledging the court castle in case of financial difficulties. Between 1311 and 1313, a wife of King Heinrich of Bohemia was pledge holder. After 1360 it was pledged to the Lords of Rottenburg . In 1372 the Vmst community dissolved the castle for Prince Duke Leopold III. from Austria , who exempted Imst from taxes for three years. 1385-1396 the castle was pledged to Hans von Egelsen and from 1445 to Gerwig von Rotenstein. In 1448 Imst belonged to the Wittum of Eleanor of Scotland (wife of Duke Sigismund the Coin Rich ) and in 1484 to the marriage property of his second wife Catherine of Saxony . King Maximilian I dissolved the court in 1496 and pledged it to the brothers Jakob and Simon Tänzl in 1498. They invested large sums in the expansion of the castle. After 1552 the Tänzl gave up their Imst pledge and the castle came to Christoph Weitmoser in 1555 . His successor was Georg Fieger von Hirschberg until 1570 , then the brothers Christoph and Karl Schurf (1579–1588), Franz Karl von Grünberg (1614) and Johann Travers zu Ortenburg (1653).

In 1682 the castle and manor of Imst were acquired by Hieronymus Bernhard Ferrari Graf d'Occhieppo. The castle remained in this family until 1824. As early as 1683, the renovation of the complex according to plans by Gallus Appeller the Elder began. J. started to build a four-wing baroque castle . The castle has been known as Rofenstein since the late 18th century . In 1822 a fire largely destroyed the castle. After 1824 it was redesigned in a sober engineering style. The district authority's office has been housed here since 1868.

Rofenstein residence today

The property forms the eastern boundary of Imst's town square. It is a three-storey, square four-wing complex with a hipped roof . To the east, the terrain slopes steeply towards the Malchbach. The building here had to be supported with a wall as early as the 16th century. The once existing and completely free-standing keep was demolished down to three storeys after the fire of 1822. The wall thickness is 1.7 to 2.0 m. The former curtain wall is now included in the outer wall of the official building (wall thicknesses up to 1.5 m). The former hall can be found in the south wing of the building. A formerly existing (1579) and St. Andrew's chapel disappeared when the new official building was built in the 19th century. Only the apse protruding to the east reminds of this. The medieval castle was completely built into the new building in the 19th century and can no longer be seen from the outside today.

In 1997 a general renovation was carried out by the Republic of Austria.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Imst
  2. ^ Josef Franckenstein: Imst (Rofenstein). In Oswald Trapp & Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner, 1986, pp. 207-212.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 20.9 ″  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 33.2 ″  E