Sonnenburg Castle (Natters)
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 Copper engraving of the area of Natters with the Sonnenburg ( Johann Georg Schädler , early 19th century) |
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| Alternative name (s): | Sunburgk, Suneburch, Sunnburch | |
| Creation time : | before 1280 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | abandoned in the 16th century, completely lost (motorway construction) | |
| Place: | Natters | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 14 '48 " N , 11 ° 23' 59" E | |
| Height: | 744 m above sea level A. | |
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The Sonnenburg is an Outbound hilltop castle in Natters near Innsbruck . The name Sonnenburg (1267 Suneburch , 1319 Suonenburch , 1321 Sunnburch ) is likely to be derived from the Old High German suona 'court' (compare atonement ).
location
The castle was at the entrance of the Wipptal , above Wilten am Bergisel at 744 m above sea level. A. above the Sill Gorge , where the Innsbruck-Süd motorway exit of the Brenner motorway is today.
history
The prince's castle was first mentioned in 1251, when the Brixen bishop Bruno von Kirchberg issued a document during the siege of the Sunburgk . The Sonnenburg fortress can also be traced back to 1280, at the time of Meinhard II of Görz-Tirol . At that time it was partly owned by the Tyrolean sovereigns and partly owned by the Lords of Freundsberg , Görz-Tyrolean servants. Also in 1319 there is talk of a siege of the Sonnenburg, which was then occupied by Heinrich von Aufenstein , Gebhard von Weer and Seyfried von Rottenburg in the name of the sovereign . In the following years, in addition to the costs for the Burghut, payments for repairs to the Praepositus of Innsbruck are mentioned. The last princely payments for the castle hat went to the Engelschalk family in the 15th century. In 1340 Albert, the brother of Margarete Maultasch , who had rebelled against the sovereign Johann Heinrich von Luxemburg , was held in the Sonnenburg and tortured.
In 1365, Sonnenburg became the seat of the court for what is now Innsbruck. In the 13th and 14th centuries it remained as the seat of the Sonnenburg district court (which existed long after the castle was in existence). She also controlled the old Roman road over the Brenner Pass , which was retained in the Middle Ages. In addition, she was probably Urbar administrative seat of the friend Berger. Their castle hat is likely to have been exercised by the knightly castle crew of Matzen near Reith. In 1321 Bertold von Freundsberg sold his share to Count Heinrich von Görz-Tirol .
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Like the Strasbourg fortress opposite in the Wipptal , the Sonnenburg was left to decay from the 16th century, the regional court had moved to the better Vellenberg Castle near Götzens.
The last remains of the castle seem to have existed at the beginning of the 19th century. These ruins were finally destroyed in 1960 when the entire former castle hill was demolished for the Brenner motorway. A cistern was uncovered and removed, which functioned similarly to a medieval filter well. The location of the Sonnenburgerhof (train stop) is reminiscent of the abandoned castle.
literature
- Oswald Trapp , Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (employee): Tiroler Burgenbuch. III. Band - Wipptal . 2nd Edition. Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 1982, ISBN 88-7014-253-1 , p. 13-16 .
Individual evidence
- Schloss Freundsberg → Die Freundsberger → Sonnenburg , on burgenkunde.at (cited information board in the tower museum at Schloss Freundsberg )
- ↑ after Karl Finsterwalder , Innsbruck, quoted in Franz Rosenkranz: Landgericht Sonnenburg ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , wiltener-schuetzen.at
- ^ Oswald Trapp, 1974, p. 15
