Hauenstein Castle (Seis am Schlern)

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Hauenstein Castle
Hauenstein Castle

Hauenstein Castle

Alternative name (s): Hauenstein ruins
Castelvecchio (Siusi)
Creation time : around 1100 to 1200
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Castelrotto
Geographical location 46 ° 32 '10.5 "  N , 11 ° 34' 6.9"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '10.5 "  N , 11 ° 34' 6.9"  E
Height: 1273  m slm
Hauenstein Castle (South Tyrol)
Hauenstein Castle
Remains of the wall of Hauenstein, behind it the Schlern

The castle Hauenstein is the ruin of the 12th century , first mentioned hilltop castle above the village of Siusi , a fraction of the market town of Kastelruth in South Tyrol ( Italy ).

location

It is located at 1273  m in a dense forest at the foot of the Schlern . About one kilometer west of the Hauenstein, Salegg Castle is at about the same height.

history

Hauenstein Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1186. The gentlemen von Hauenstein, who lived there, ran into financial difficulties and in 1367 had to sell a third of the castle and its associated properties to Ekhard von Villanders. His son-in-law Friedrich von Wolkenstein took over the share and illegally confiscated income from the farms subject to interest, including two-thirds of his co-owner, Anna von Hauenstein, who was married to the knight Martin Jäger and presumably lived on the Fahlburg .

Friedrich's younger son, the late medieval poet composer Oswald von Wolkenstein , inherited the share in the castle, moved into it and continued to collect the Jäger taxes for himself. In autumn 1421 Oswald was kidnapped to the Fahlburg and tortured there. He was then taken to Vorst Castle , where Jäger was the castle captain, and was only released against a high bond guarantee to Prince Frederick IV . It was not until 1427, after long legal disputes, that Oswald reached a settlement with which he acquired the two-thirds of the Jägers and compensated them for the lost income. Despite frequent business trips, he spent longer periods of time at Hauenstein, where his wife Margareta von Schwangau and the children also lived. The singer's Hauenstein song is well known. His bronze sword and other objects were also unearthed near the Hauenstein castle ruins.

The castle was expanded in the 15th and 16th centuries. Christoph Freiherr von Wolkenstein acquired the castle on January 1st, 1551. In the 17th century it fell into ruin.

Today the Hauenstein ruins are owned by the Diocese of Bozen-Brixen .

investment

Remnants of the wall still remain from the complex, which were restored in the 1970s. The remains of frescoes were uncovered inside the chapel .

literature

  • Johanna Fritsch: Hauenstein . In: Oswald Trapp (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. IV. Volume: Eisacktal . Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 1977, pp. 336–347.
  • Bruno Mahlknecht : How long has Hauenstein been uninhabited? In: Der Schlern , 51, 1977, pp. 563-564
  • Georg Mutschlechner: The castle truces Hauenstein and Salegg . In: Der Schlern , 51, 1977, pp. 363-366
  • Alan Robertshaw: On the property and residence of Oswald v. Wolkenstein: Hauenstein and the Hauenstein songs: with a comment on the Hauenstein frescoes . In: Der Schlern , 64, 1990, pp. 318-332
  • Helmut Stampfer : Restoration of the Hauenstein ruins in 1976/77 . In: Der Schlern , 51, 1977, pp. 356-362

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Kühn : I Wolkenstein. A biography. Extended new version. Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-19008-9 , p. 18 ff., P. 418 ff.