Stein am Renon Castle

Stein am Ritten castle ruins

The ruins of Stein am Ritten Castle are located in South Tyrol below Siffian, between Klobenstein and Unterinn .

The few imposing remains of the castle ruins rise on an isolated rock head above a gorge that slopes down from Renon into the Eisack valley. From Palas are only southern and western walls, the circular walls of the deeper Vorburg have fallen largely into the depths. In the first half of the 13th century the complex was built by the lords “de Lapide” ( zum Stein ), destroyed in 1349, then rebuilt and abandoned in the 17th century.

For a long time, the castle, which is situated on important secondary connections, served as the seat of the Ritten court . On behalf of the Tyrolean sovereigns practiced in the 15th century Pflegrichter of jurisdiction, so in 1417 Bolzano nobles Ingenuin of Weineck as "Phleger on the Stain" .

literature

Ferdinand Rottensteiner: The court to the stone on the Renon in the Middle Ages. Innsbruck 1969.
Helmut Stampfer : Stein am Ritten . In: Oswald Trapp (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. IV. Volume: Eisacktal . Verlaganstalt Athesia, Bozen 1977, pp. 412-418.
Helmut Stampfer: News from the Stein am Ritten castle ruins . In: Der Schlern 58, 1984, pp. 129-134.
Josef Weingartner : Stein am Ritten . In: Der Schlern 2, 1921, pp. 216–217.

Web links

Commons : Stein am Ritten - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

Individual evidence

^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 56, no.949 .

46.522264 11.469136Coordinates: 46 ° 31 '20.2 " N , 11 ° 28' 8.9" E

[1] Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 56, no.949 .