Salegg Castle

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Salegg Castle
The Salegg ruins

The Salegg ruins

Alternative name (s): Saleck
Castel Salego
Creation time : around 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Castelrotto
Geographical location 46 ° 32 '10.3 "  N , 11 ° 33' 30"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '10.3 "  N , 11 ° 33' 30"  E
Height: 1219  m slm
Salegg Castle (South Tyrol)
Salegg Castle

The Castle Salegg , even Saleck written and Castle Salegg called, is a ruined castle above Siusi , a fraction of the market town of Kastelruth in South Tyrol ( Italy ).

location

The ruin is located at the foot of the Schlern near the Santner peak. The hilltop castle is located at around 1219 meters in the Hauenstein Forest. About one kilometer east of the Salegg, the Hauenstein ruins are at about the same height. It was built on black porphyry rocks and is now surrounded by coniferous forests.

history

Salegg Castle, like Hauenstein, was first mentioned in a document in the 12th century. Its builders, the Lords of Saleck , were mentioned in 1178 together with the Lords of Castelrotto as Brixen Ministerials .

The feudal castle was used over the centuries as an inheritance castle . So in 1438 the part of Kaspar von Gufidaun came to Konrad von Kraig. In 1473 Salegg was wholly owned by the Zwingensteiners, through whom it came to the Wolkensteiners in the middle of the 16th century .

It was left to decay at the beginning of the 17th century and was partly removed as building material. According to the Kastelruther Chronikbuch, Salegg Castle had a chapel. With the beginning of the decline, their altar and bell were supposedly brought to the Maria-Hilf-Kirche in Seis. The Maria-Hilf Church was consecrated on September 6, 1657 by the Brixen bishop Jesse Perkhofer with the altar Maria Hilf and side altar to Saint Catherine .

A hotel was built below the castle in the 20th century, which was named "Hotel Salegg" after the high medieval castle. The German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey died there in 1911 .

Today the Salegg is owned by the Diocese of Bozen-Brixen .

investment

Remnants of the Salegg wall, with the Schlern behind
The inside of the ruin

Remnants of the circular wall with a diameter of around one meter, as well as the remains of a palace wall, to which corner turrets were added in further building history, have been preserved from the former Salegg Castle .

For the heavily dilapidated castle complex, the builder Albrecht Ebensberger from Glorenza created a renovation concept in September 2000, whereupon the three-month renovation work began in summer 2001 and the masonry was secured. In the following summer of 2002, the undergrowth and trees were cleared and presented to the public in a new light.

A legend tells of an underground passage in which great treasures of gold and silver are stored. It should lead from Salegg to Hauenstein and be guarded by a virgin with long, golden hair who is sitting on a money chest. So far, no archaeological evidence has been found for the existence of such a passage.

The castle can be reached via the “Oswald von Wolkenstein Adventure Trail”, which was laid out in 2006. The late medieval poet composer Oswald von Wolkenstein lived in the neighboring Hauenstein Castle.

literature

  • Wolftraud de Concini: South Tyrolean castles and palaces . Terlan 1991
  • Georg Mutschlechner: The castle truces Hauenstein and Salegg . In: Der Schlern , 51, 1977, pp. 363-366
  • Otto Piper: Salegg . In: Austrian castles. Part 4 . Edited on behalf of Prince Johann von und zu Liechtenstein and Count Hans Wilczek, Hölder, Vienna 1905.
  • Helmut Stampfer : Saleck . In: Oswald Trapp (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. IV. Volume: Eisacktal . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1977, pp. 347–352.
  • Helmut Stampfer: To the Salegg castle ruins near Seis am Schlern . In: Der Schlern , 77, 2003, pp. 69–75

Web links

Commons : Salegg  - collection of images, videos and audio files