Andraz Castle
| Andraz Castle | ||
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 Andraz Castle, south side |
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| Creation time : | 11th century | |
| Castle type : | Hillside castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Buchenstein | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 30 '16.6 " N , 11 ° 59' 20.6" E | |
| Height: | 1730 m slm | |
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The Andraz Castle (also Andraz Castle , German Buchenstein Castle , Italian Castello di Andraz , Ladin Ciastel d'Andrac ) is located in the Dolomites , south of the Falzarego Pass in Buchenstein in the province of Belluno , Italy . Today the castle is in ruins .
history
Andraz Castle was built around 1027 to secure the "iron road" on which the high quality iron extracted from the mines of Monte Pore was transported. The first owner of the castle is documented by a von Buchenstein family, who probably came from a southern German nobility. In 1091 the Brixen monastery received the rule of Buchenstein from Emperor Heinrich IV . In the following century, the Brixen servants von Rodenegg and von Schöneck received most of the real estate in Buchenstein as a fief. Through inheritance and purchases, the Schöneckers soon became the sole rulers of Buchenstein. Around 1200 the Lords of Buchenstein sold Andraz Castle to the Bishops of Brixen.
The Bishopric of Brixen took Andraz in 1426 with the rule book stone in their own administration. In 1432 Andraz was rebuilt and occupied by a castle captain. In a dispute with Abbess Verena von Stuben from the Sonnenburg Monastery , Prince-Bishop Nikolaus von Kues used Andraz as a refuge for several months in 1457/58 out of fear of the monastery bailiff, Duke Siegmund of Tyrol .
In 1755 the Bressanone Monastery stopped iron ore mining in the Buchenstein lordship.
Due to the secularization , Buchenstein fell to Austria in 1803 . The last captain of the castle, Johann Lindner, left Andraz Castle. Just seven years later, Buchenstein fell to the Kingdom of Italy, until it was united with Tyrol in 1813 and thus came to Austria. Until the First World War , the area belonged to Tyrol, now it is part of the province of Belluno .
swell
- Nikolaus von Kues : Memorandum on the legal history of Buchenstein. In: Nikolaus von Kues: Letters and documents on the Brixen dispute . Volume 2: Nikolaus von Kues as a pastor. Letters, memoranda (1453–1458) . Edited by Wilhelm Baum and Raimund Senoner. Kitab publishing house, Klagenfurt 2000. ISBN 3-902005-03-3 ( Latin texts and German translation )
literature
- Gunther Langes : Ladinia . Bolzano 1977
- Giuseppe Richebuono: Andraz / Buchenstein . In: Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. IX. Volume: Val Pusteria . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 2003, ISBN 978-88-8266-163-2 , pp. 171–180.
- Josef Weingartner : Tyrolean castles . Innsbruck 1962
