Castle Lueg am Brenner
| Castle Lueg am Brenner | ||
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 Lueg Castle and Zollburg in the Sill Valley |
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| Alternative name (s): | Castle on Wahlenstein | |
| Creation time : | first mentioned in 1241 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, cave castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Gries am Brenner - Lueg | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 1 '41.2 " N , 11 ° 29' 47.1" E | |
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The completely abandoned Castle Lueg am Brenner , also known as Burg am Wahlenstein , was a real cave castle and was about 20 m above km 108.5 of the Brenner Railway in the Lueg district of the municipality of Gries am Brenner in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol . With Lueg is in Old High German a cave or a camp called.
History of the castle
For the first time the castle is in a peace treaty of March 20, 1241 between Count Albert III. called by Tyrol and the Elect Egno of Eppan ; At that time, the castles built during the feud between the two parties, including the spelunca in silva ex ista Parte Matray , were to be demolished. Obviously, however, this facility was not destroyed, because in 1288 and 1296, the princely account books mentioned expenses for a customs post in antro (in the cave), whereby a distinction must be made between a customs post in the valley and the fortification in the cave above . The cave castle was probably connected to the customs post in the valley as early as 1241. The customs post at the luge is also secured by a contract between Count Albert I of Gorizia and his brother Count Meinrad of Tyrol from 1288. This duty was very important for the sovereigns because of the high income. At the beginning of the 14th century payments for repair work on the castle are attested.
In 1677 it is reported that repair work in the old building above the customs post is not necessary. At the time of the Schmalkaldic War , King Ferdinand I was assured in 1552 that the pass into the Etsch and Eisack valleys could not be conquered because of the castle.
According to the Kraidfire Ordinance of 1647 and 1678, the last station in the Wipptal is Am Lueg in der Höch , which could mean the cave castle.
It is not known exactly when the castle was abandoned in favor of the customs post in the valley. The customs building is likely to have been built at the turn of the 14th century. In 1561 there is talk of a newly made Palhauß am Lug (= ball house, i.e. stacking place), in 1566 there is a report here of an Kaiser-Stuben , which is related to the two visits of Emperor Maximilian I on the Lueg in 1511 and 1514 . In 1668 a tower and another old tower are mentioned here . The building consisted of a complex of three connected houses and a tower on the west side. All buildings were covered with half- hip roofs . The street led through the first house (through a high gate) up to the Brenner. Lueg was raised to the higher customs office in 1778. The building was badly damaged in 1797. By order of Marshal Lefebvre , the customs and ballroom at Lueg was burned down in 1809 as a reaction to the defeat in the Sachsenklemme . In 1815 the customs post was closed.
chapel
Next to the customs house in the valley is one dedicated to St. Sigmund and St. The church consecrated to Christophorus was built empty-handed by Duke Friedrich in the 15th century . His son Sigismund the Rich in Coin founded a chaplain here in 1449 . In 1641, a curate of its own was even set up, which was not incorporated into the Vinaders curate until 1811 . The little church is built in Gothic style , but is more reminiscent of the Romanesque . From 1684 to 1686 the church was redesigned, adding an anteroom and redesigning the interior in Baroque style .
Extensive renovation work began in 1990 and was completed in 2013.
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Castle Lueg am Brenner then and now
As can be seen on a view from the 19th century, the castle lay like a swallow's nest in the wall of the Wahlenstein. Apparently it was crowned with battlements and had loopholes and portholes. The castle was completely in the local cave, with the rock protruding a good four meters above the castle. The defensive wall of the castle stood on the edge of the cave towards the valley.
When the Brenner Railway was built (1864–1867), the castle was demolished. Remnants of the defensive wall were only removed in the 1940s for security reasons. The floor of the cave has been swept several times so that there are no more traces of the ground. In the cave, however, several depressions can still be seen, which presumably served to expand beams. There is also a small tunnel carved out of the rock that runs to the east, but it is buried after two meters. The access to the cave was roughly on the route of today's railway line.
literature
- Oswald Trapp ; Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (employee): Tiroler Burgenbuch. III. Band - Wipptal . Athesia Publishing House, Bolzano 1974.
Individual evidence
- ↑ There is also the name Weilenstein, which in turn is derived from the word Maelenstein . This name is related to a Roman milestone found in 1564, which is currently kept in Ambras Castle . See Oswald Trapp, 1974, p. 80.
Web links
- Gries on the burner
- Entry on Castle Lueg am Brenner in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Sights on the old Brenner pass road