Hirschberg Castle (Wenns)
| Hirschberg Castle | ||
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 Hirschberg tower in Wenns around 1900 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Tower of Wenns | |
| Creation time : | 12th or 13th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Place: | If it | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 10 '13.8 " N , 10 ° 43' 58.8" E | |
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The castle Hirschberg (also Tower of ifs is called) an Outbound lowland castle in the town of Wenns in the Imst district of Tyrol .
history
In Wenns there were two aristocratic residences, one of which was near the parish church and is likely to have been the older one (this complex disappeared when the widum was demolished in 1977). 1162–1164 Adelman de Vuennes and Gibo de Vuennes , presumably ministerials of the Brixen monastery , are recorded here. Presumably towards the end of the 12th century, this fief went to the Starkenberger and later to the Schwangau . A Heinrich Hirzsperch is mentioned here for the first time in 1265 . Until 1300 he and his son belonged to the serfs of the Starkenberger. Heinrich II. Hirschberg then entered the service of the sovereign and became judge of Landeck, Imst and Innsbruck; from 1309 to 1311 he was Vicedominus in the Oberinntal and one of the ten land administrators. His son Heinrich bequeathed the Alm Söllberg to Widum zu Wenns, as well as ain guet panzer, ainen eisenhut, zwen plattenhadtschuech and his sword. After 1400 the tower was inhabited by the pastor, and the right of asylum was connected with the tower. With the court act , da weillandt der Hirschpergerhaus and thurn aufsteet , the Fieger were enfeoffed in 1553 , of which a branch of the family was henceforth called Fieger von Hirschberg .
The name Hirschberg went over to a second tower north of the village, which was a sovereign fiefdom . In the 14th century, a noble family named after Wenns originally lived here. In 1401 this tower in Wenns or tower in Stockwiesen was given to Hans von Eben as a fief. In 1450 it was owned by Hans von Kripp, to whom the last of the Ebner family, Margarethe, had brought the tower on her way to marriage. In 1493 he passed again through a marriage from Magdalena Kripp to Sebastian Fieger. However, the Fiegers mostly stayed on other of their numerous estates. In 1752, however, a Fieger bailiff made a list of the Hirschberg archives.
The complex was originally a tower, possibly surrounded by a curtain wall. The mounted around the Tower of the Kripps houses with pitch roofs , the system received castle-like character. The tower was 25 m high and had a defensive plate with battlements and was closed off by a pyramid roof. The tower gate was originally halfway up the tower in the east wall.
The Fiegers held the tower until it died out in 1805. In 1817 Hirschberg passed to Josef Ritter von Woertz on Kaufweg, in 1834 it passed to farmers. On October 5th, 1921 the building collapsed, in 1926 stones from the ruins were used to build Pitztalstrasse.
literature
- Oswald Trapp ; Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (employee): Tiroler Burgenbuch. VII. Volume - Upper Inn Valley and Ausserfern . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1986, ISBN 88-7014-391-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oswald Trapp & Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner, 1986, pp. 323–326.
- ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 2: 1140-1200 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7030-0485-8 , p. 155, No. 579 .