Weineck Castle

Sparse wall remains from Weinck Castle

Weinck Castle (also Weinegg ) refers to a castle on the Virgl near Bozen in South Tyrol . The originally very broad, now down to a few remnants vanished castle was built in the 12th century - the stronghold of the Bishopric of Trent and his ministerials in the Bolzano area is 1165 first mentioned in documents and in a little later tradition note of the monastery Schäftlarn of 1170/75 as urbs qualified ; therefore a connection with the roughly simultaneous establishment of the new market settlement Bozen is assumed. In the late 12th century, Weineck, with a consistently high number of Burgmannen , consistently Trient ministerials z. T. higher rank, a permanent aristocratic occupation. This made the castle an object of contention in the battle for the Bolzano area between the Trento bishops and the Tyrolean Count Meinhard II , who had the complex destroyed and systematically removed in the course of the armed conflict in 1292/93. There is no idea what the castle will look like. The location of the main castle is to be assumed above the church of St. Vigil am Virgl, as documented location designations from the late 15th century (" sandt Vigilien capelln under Weinegkh ") suggest.

The family who once lived in the castle continued to exist after their ancestral seat was destroyed and continued to call themselves von Weineck. Its members also became politically active in the 14th century and played a role in the disputes between the aristocratic opposition and the sovereign. From 1365 to 1426 they owned the castle inquiries stone .

literature

• Georg Innerebner: Castle Weinegg and the Weinegger . In: The Sciliar . 29, 1955, pp. 104-117.
• Josef Nössing: Weineck . In: Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch, Volume VIII: Bozen area . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1989, ISBN 88-7014-495-X , pp. 71-75.
• Hannes Obermair : Bolzano documents in the Middle Ages and the establishment of the urban settlement Bolzano . In: Bolzano from the beginning to the demolition of the city wall. Reports of the international study conference in Maretsch Castle . Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 1991, ISBN 88-7014-559-X , p. 159-190, esp. Pp. 176-177 .

Web links

Commons : Burg Weineck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On this, cf. Christoph Haidacher: The older Tyrolean account books (IC. 278, IC. 279 and the siege of Weineck). Analysis and edition (Tyrolean historical sources 40). Innsbruck: Tiroler Landesarchiv 1998, p. 15f. and 43ff.
2. ^ 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. 176-177, no. 1195 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 25.4 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 59.5 ″  E