Klamm Castle
| Klamm Castle | ||
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 View of the Klamm Castle |
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Place: | Obsteig | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 17 '54 " N , 10 ° 56' 59" E | |
| Height: | 870 m | |
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The Klamm Castle is a restored hilltop castle at 870 m above sea level. A. in the municipality of Obsteig in the Imst district in Tyrol . It lies below the connecting road from Nassereith to Mötz . The facility is surrounded on three sides by steep slopes. The mighty round keep with its square battlements is striking . The Palas is deeper and a little removed.
history
The area around Klamm and the Mieminger Plateau was an Augsburg church fief . It was issued as a fiefdom to the Swabian noble free Albert von Neiffen and passed on by him as an afterfief to the Reich ministerial Marquart von Kemnat. On the other hand, there has been a noble family since 1250 that names itself after Klamm and was obviously ministerial of the Starkenberger . Apparently, Marquart von Kemnat had to be sold to the sovereign in 1290 under pressure from Meinhard II. Klamm. This was preceded by the donation by Albert von Neiffen to Bishop Hartmann . Gradually, the other Mieming possessions came to the sovereign by buying or exchanging Augsburg.
The Klamm Castle was probably built between 1220 and 1230. In 1318 King Heinrich of Bohemia lent his house ze Clamme to the brothers Konrad and Rudolf von Mils. The Lords of Milser, whose best-known representative was Knight Oswald von Milser , came from the western Upper Inn Valley and were originally in the service of the Counts of Eppan-Ulten and then in the Tyrolean service. After Rudolf's death, Klamm passed to Konrad alone in 1322 and inherited to his sons Oswald and Christoph. The Milser brothers shared the Klamm Castle in 1374. After Christoph's death, Oswald decreed that Klamm should revert to the sovereign. This meant that the nephew Sigmund von Starkenberg, who was entitled to inherit, should be bypassed. He was able to enforce his claims and was enfeoffed with Klamm by Duke Leopold IV of Austria . In the course of the Starkenberg feud , Klamm came under the administration of Duke Friedrich IV. In 1447, Duke Sigismund appoints Jörg to Klamm Castle as a caretaker . As a result, a number of other keepers appear on Klamm, of which Hans Frech deserves special mention, because essential building work is being carried out under him. The castle remains in the Frech family until 1645. After the death of Christoph Frech the Elder J. Klamm is placed under the care of St. Petersburg . 1650 both gentlemen are Archduke Ferdinand Karl to Count Clary Aldringen first pledged and then in 1674 by Emperor Leopold I sold to them. Klamm left these to the Upper Austrian Chancellor Franz Christoph Rassler in 1688. After his death, his widow sold Klamm in 1692 to the timber supplier and raftsman Thomas Hirn. After two generations, Klamm came to Thaddäus Scharmer by marriage via the Kreszentia Hirn in 1848. His son had the property come down and sold most of the inventory. In 1913 the castle was sold to the Berlin businessman Franz Sallentien. He had extensive renovations carried out. In 1957 the castle went to the Rhenish industrialist Emil Mauritz Hünnebeck, who had the castle restored in style. The old gatehouse was replaced by a large gatehouse. A late Gothic room was bought by Taufers Castle in 1965 and a separate extension was built for it. Klamm is still owned by the family.
On April 19, 2011, the entire roof structure was destroyed in a fire . The roof has since been restored (2016).
Castle Klamm today
The castle is accessed via a wooden bridge reconstructed based on images. It leads over the outer moat to the newly built gatehouse.
Characteristic of the castle gorge is completely detached four-storey and round keep . The tower is believed to have been built around 1220/1230. Its diameter is 9.75 m and in the lower area it has a wall thickness of 2.1 m. A high entry on the first floor and a battlement door on the third floor are on the side facing away from an attack. Several corbels and beam holes mark the former battlement. Tower completing a ring of 2,5 m high rectangular castellations . In the middle of the 17th century, a chapel was set up in the tower in honor of the Fourteen Holy Helpers . The altar is now in the Imster Johanneskirche as a gift from the owner family . Because of its regular wall structure, the tower is one of the most important castle towers in Tyrol.
The Palas of the plant stands immediately above the steep rock face. It was built on a pentagonal ground plan at the same time as the tower. Probably it was built in two or three phases. The basement shows the same construction as the tower (dated 1229–1233), the floor above also has a regular stone layer, but has painted mortar joints and tuff blocks at the corners. The upper floor has irregular filler masonry (originated at the beginning of the 16th century). The hall was originally separated from the tower by a ditch , but it was not until the late Middle Ages that both parts were connected by a wall .
When the palace was raised at the beginning of the 16th century, a wall was built from it and surrounding the tower. At the northwest corner this ends in a rock break.
From 1992 to 1999, Klamm Castle served as the backdrop for "Brauneck Castle" in the 92-part television series Der Bergdoktor .
Castle Klamm and the village of Mieming
Access
bridge
Klamm Castle
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
- ^ Josef Franckenstein: Klamm. In Oswald Trapp & Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner, 1986, pp. 359-370.
- ↑ Report of the village newspaper (PDF; 679 kB)
