Steinburg residence
The Ansitz Steinburg is next Ansiedl and Mohrfeld the third Ansitz in the village Aufhofen at Brunico in South Tyrol .
history
The residence was originally a kitchen farm of the Bishop of Brixen and subsequently became an episcopal fief. The first owners came from the Tinkhauser family, a bourgeois family that was first mentioned in a document in 1449. In 1528 Leonhard Tinkhauser received the fiefdom letter for "the farmstead with garden at Aufhofen an der Gasse". Hans Jöchl, who lived in the house as the prince-bishop's official, is known as the next fief owner of what was later to become the Steinburg residence. Through his daughter Euphemia, the house came to the Rumbl von Lichtenau family, as they married Christoph Rumbl († 1576) in 1542. From 1542 he was responsible for the care and the court of Michelsburg, was bailiff for Bruneck and district captain in Pustertal. With the privilege of May 16, 1556, his residence in Aufhofen was elevated to a residence with the title "Steinburg", which was associated with the corresponding freedom of the nobility. His son Anton followed him as bailiff and was also the last of his house. In 1577 he received the Steinburg residence and the Magein estate. He died in 1590, and through the marriage of his daughter Anna Euphemia to Sigmund Söll von Teissegg , the Steinburg mansion came to the Söll von Teissegg in 1591. Sigmund was in the service of the prince-bishop, in 1589/90 he was court and caretaker of the prince-bishop Johann Thomas von Spaur. In 1590 he was given the office of Bruneck, which he passed on to his son Anton in 1621. Sigmund had paneled state rooms set up in the stone castle. Financial donations from Sigmund and Anton Söll also enriched the Sölli Benefice in the Bruneck Hospital. Sigmund Söll died in Bruneck in 1636, and in 1637 the letter of fief to Anton was issued for the stone castle and the Magein-Gut zu Aufhofen. He received permission to incorporate the so-called Sindlehen into the Steinburg residence. Anton Söll von Teissegg zu Steinburg died in Aufhofen in 1677 and was buried there. His son, Veit Sigmund Söll von Teissegg and Steinburg, is referred to as the Tyrolean land militia captain in 1664. In 1666 he received the feudal letter for the Steinburg mansion and the Sindlehen incorporated in it for himself and his siblings. In 1668 he married Anna Margareth Troyer von Ansheim and Grembsen in Aufhofen. Veit Sigmund died in 1701 in the Steinburg residence; after that his son Franz Josef Söll from Teissegg zu Steinburg continued the line - he was issued a fiefdom in 1745. After his death in 1766, he was followed by Augustin Kassian Söll von Teissegg zu Steinburg, who, like his father, was a kk forester in Pustertal. Thereafter, Johann Nepomuk Söll took over the inheritance, an economic crisis at the beginning of the 19th century, which hit the land and civil servants in particular, resulted in the Steinburg feud being allodialized in 1814 and converted into property subject to land tax. The land rate was replaced in 1834. Johann Nepomuk was the kk district office registrar. He died in 1824 without children, with which the Söll family from Teissegg zu Steinburg died out.
His brother Alois Augustin, canon in Brixen, acquired the Steinburg residence in 1826. When he died in 1840, all property was handed over to the Priest Correction House in Brixen. In 1841 the stone castle's furniture was auctioned. In 1842 Karl Graf von Welsberg zu Reiterau and Primör bought the property and sold it to Adolf Ritter von Straub in 1864. In 1873 the residence was bought by Karl Freiherr von Czoernig (1804–1889). He was an important Austrian statistician who, among other things, rendered outstanding services to the expansion of Danube shipping and the railway network. He had the residence rebuilt, named it "Sofien-Schlösschen" in honor of his wife and wrote a monograph on it. She inherited the property from him and after her inheritance in 1924 a quarter of Andrea Freiin von Bavier, married Countess Marzani, and three-quarters of Countess Georgine Marzani. In 1952 the residence was sold to Josef Aschbacher.
Extensive restoration work was carried out in 1963 and 2011.
Construction
The residence is in the Renaissance style . It consists of two floors and is flanked at both corners of the south side by two towers, which form spacious bay windows inside. On the outside of the towers there is a sundial under the cornice. On the north side there is a stone-framed round arch portal made of granite. The walls and ceilings of the individual living rooms are mostly paneled with stone pine.
On the first floor there is a room with rich paneling and frescoes showing, among other things, the figures of Samson and Dalila. On the coffered ceiling is the coat of arms of Archduke Karl of Austria , the Bishop of Brixen, surrounded by gold-plated emblems, the symbols of the four evangelists , the twelve signs of the zodiac and symbolized animals. The two doors have an elaborately carved frame. The fittings of a door are gold-plated.
One corner of the room is occupied by a stove that reaches to the ceiling and rests on five lions as pedestals. The surface of the furnace consists of faience panels, which are burnt in blue on white, depicting scenes from Greek mythology and, in the upper part, the coats of arms of Tyrolean aristocrats with the dates 1612 and 1613. On one of the panels you can read the letters "FK (fec [it])", which refer to the builder of the stove. The coat of arms of Bishop Wilhelm von Welsperg can be found on the ceiling of the adjoining room, which is paneled with square cassettes .
A large inscription on the western outer wall shows verses 391 to 403 from the tragedy Thyestes of Seneca.
literature
- Karl Freiherr von Czoernig : The Sophienschlösschen in Aufhofen near Bruneck . Vienna 1879.
- Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol . 1957, Volume I, p. 108
Web links
- Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 53.5 ″ N , 11 ° 56 ′ 42.6 ″ E