Burgstall Castle (South Tyrol)

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Burgstall Castle
View from the slope of the castle ruins

View from the slope of the castle ruins

Alternative name (s): Burgstall ruins, Burgstall castle ruins
Creation time : Documented in 1298 at the end of the 13th century
Castle type : Spornburg , Hangburg
Conservation status: Castle ruins
Standing position : Lower nobility
Place: Burgstall ( Italian : Postal)
Geographical location 46 ° 36 '43.3 "  N , 11 ° 11' 34.5"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 36 '43.3 "  N , 11 ° 11' 34.5"  E
Burgstall Castle (South Tyrol)
Burgstall Castle

The Castle Burgstall is the ruin of a Spur castle in the municipality Burgstall in Burggrafenamt in today's South Tyrol south of Merano in Italy . The village of the same name was built around the castle.

location

The spur castle over a small rock chasm is east of the Adige on the foothills of the Tschögglberg with a view of the valley and the opposite Lana . On the rising behind the castle ridge of the place is Verano .

history

The first traces of fortification and finds indicate that it could originally have been a prehistoric hill fort .

A tower is mentioned for the first time in 1289 or 1298 , probably instead of the later castle. To 1330 has the tower as a small castle have been expanded, because this year is Volkmar von Tirol (1280 to 1347 (1342)), at that time Castellan of Castle Tyrol , with location and castle invested . In the same year Volkmar had a chapel built - the basis of today's church in Burgstall, and in 1331 a chaplain was founded . Probably around this time the Burgstall court was established under him , which existed until 1810.

The ruinous keep

The place was created later under the protection of the castle. Volkmar named himself after the castle and place as Volkmar von Burgstall , in 1326, for example, he appears in a document as “dominus Volckmarus miles de Purckstal” . In 1342 (partly interpreted as the year of death) Volkmar fell out of favor with the new sovereign Ludwig the Brandenburger . His possessions in Burgstall came to the Tyrolean nobleman Heinrich von Annenberg .

The plaque on the castle ruins, on the other hand, explains that the castle was owned by the knights from 1280 to 1343, who named himself after the property and was at the same time the founder of the younger line of the Counts of Spaur . This South Tyrolean line produced several famous bishops in multiple ramifications in the late Middle Ages .

In 1344 Friedrich von Weißenstein was enfeoffed with the court. In 1348, the Duke of Teck razed the grounds during a war for the husband of Margarete von Tirol , Ludwig the Brandenburger . In 1363 Friedrich von Greifenstein was allowed to rebuild the facility. The complex has been in ruins since 1600.

From 1651 to 1704 the Lords of Hohenhauser held the fiefdom of the area, who sold it back to the Lords of Spaur . In 1810 under Bavarian occupation, the court was dissolved and placed under the Meran Regional Court .

Description of the plant

The castle consisted of a square keep and a residential building , which was surrounded by a complete curtain wall . Today, remnants of walls are still the tower substructure, the Palas and receive half of the castle wall down to a maximum height of three meters (valley) at regular layers of stone with mortar joint. Strong side walls up to the demolition in the Adige Valley are also still visible. On July 23, 1979, the castle ruins were placed under monument protection as a monument .

literature

  • Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume II: Burgrave Office . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1980, pp. 222-224.
  • Helmut Dumler: Hikes to castles and palaces in South Tyrol . Munich 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Burgstall at www.geschichte-tirol.com
  2. ↑ a b Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
  3. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Spaur, Volkmar, Burggraf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1878, p. 103 ( digital copy ).
  4. ^ 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. 234, no. 416 .
  5. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Spaur, the count family of, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1878, p. 89 ( digital copy ).
  6. ↑ Probably a spelling or translation error, presumably the later Friedrich von Greifenstein , lord of the nearby castle Greifenstein in the direction of Bozen, is meant.

Web links

Commons : Burg Burgstall  - Collection of images, videos and audio files