Wolfsthurn Castle

Wolfsthurn
Creation time :	around 1280
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	restored
Geographical location	46 ° 30 '58.3 " N , 11 ° 13' 23.8" E Coordinates: 46 ° 30 '58.3 " N , 11 ° 13' 23.8" E
Height:	285 m slm

Wolfsthurn Castle is located in South Tyrol , above the municipality of Andrian on a hill of 285 m in a deciduous forest .

The hilltop castle is not identical to the castle of the same name in Ratschings .

history

In the period around 1280 it was built by the Lords of Andrian in the immediate vicinity of Andrian Castle . First it consisted of an area surrounded by a wall keep . In 1430 the castle came to the family of the Wolves of Mareit by marriage , from which the name of the castle is derived (as is the case with Wolfsthurn Castle in Mareit). In the 16th century a residential building and a farm wing were added. The southern entrance gate was supplemented with a gate tower with loopholes and dovetail battlements . The wall was also raised. When it fell into ruin around 1850 , the facility was again considered and renovated.

The new owner, Baron Kripp, renovated the castle in 1997. The family is now offering holidays on the organic farm at their medieval residence .

literature

Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner: Wolfsthurn . In: Same (ed.): Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume X: Überetsch and South Tyrolean Unterland . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 2011, ISBN 978-88-8266-780-1 , pp. 39–49.

Web links

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

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