Alt-Rettenberg castle ruins

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Alt-Rettenberg castle ruins
Creation time : before 1298
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Kolsassberg
Geographical location 47 ° 17 '14.6 "  N , 11 ° 39' 3.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '14.6 "  N , 11 ° 39' 3.6"  E
Height: 826  m above sea level A.
Alt-Rettenberg castle ruins (Tyrol)
Alt-Rettenberg castle ruins
Coat of arms of the Lords of Rottenburg in the municipal coat of arms of Kolsassberg

The Alt-Rettenberg castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle in the municipality of Kolsassberg (Seapenhausweg 10) in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol .

location

The castle was on the Seppenhausbichl, which slopes steeply into the Weerbach valley in the east and was bordered by ditches on the other sides. The hill was probably partly artificially raised.

History of Alt-Rettenberg Castle

The castle had been owned by the Lords of Rottenburg since 1298 . The Rottenburgers set up an independent lower court at Rettenberg Castle in the western part of their domain . The high court remained at Rottenburg Castle . In 1315 a judge on Rettenberg ( iudex de Rettenberch ) was first mentioned in a document. According to the Salinenamtsbuch from around 1330, a certain Henricus de Watens zu Kolsassberg was a judge.

The castle chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary was consecrated in 1302 or 1303. These goods were subject to interest in the Rettenberg court as well as in Weer and Schwaz . As recently as 1492 (at the time of the last Kirchberg Count Philip) the following items were recorded in the inventory of the castle chapel: a red chasuble, an old yellow silk chasuble, a gilded chalice with a paten, an old little missal, a censer, two sacrificial jugs, two brass candlesticks , two corporals, a censer, some altar books and other utensils.

Margrave Ludwig von Brandenburg and his wife Margarethe Maultasch had the court and Rettenberg Castle transferred to Conrad Khumersprugger, Jägermeister in Upper Bavaria, at short notice in 1359 around 3024 Mark Perner, good Meraner Münz , although it was not owned by the sovereign but by the Rottenburger.

Henry VI. von Rottenburg had attempted to overthrow the sovereign in 1410, he was imprisoned and had to submit to Duke Friedrich with an empty pocket . In 1411 he therefore had to cede the Rottenburg and Rettenberg castles to him and since then Rettenberg has been administered by royal caretakers . The last bailiff of the Rottenburger was Peter von Clamm, named in 1407. In 1411 Hanns von Emps took over the care of Rettenberg.

However, Count Eberhard von Kirchberg raised claims to the castle because he had married the Rottenburger's widow Agnes, née Countess vonwerteberg, and had received this as a morning gift from her first husband, Rettenberg . After two arbitration awards by King Sigismund , Duke Friedrich relented and in 1419 handed Rettenberg over to Count Eberhard as a pledge. In 1424 Conrad Erlinger became castellan of Rettenberg. In 1492 Count Eberhard d. J. on his rights and the already neglected castle was given to Florian Waldauf von Waldenstein as pledge . He had the castle demolished and the Neu-Rettenberg Castle built further north of it .

Alt-Rettenberg today

A landslide on the Seppenhausbichl between 1970 and 1973 excavated the foundations of the palace as well as parts of the courtyard and the kennel of the abandoned castle . Remnants of the wall that go down to a depth of seven meters, utensils and stove tiles came to light. Over the centuries, at least nine major alterations have been made here, as can be seen from the joints, window walls and various wall constructions. Today the plant is owned by Josef Schweiger.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Harb: History of the court and the castle Rettenberg. P. 73.