Alt-Starkenberg castle ruins
| Alt-Starkenberg castle ruins | ||
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| Creation time : | first mentioned in 1217 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Place: | Tarrenz | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 16 '15 " N , 10 ° 45' 11" E | |
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The Alt-Starkenberg castle ruins are the remains of a hilltop castle in the municipality of Tarrenz in the Imst district of Tyrol .
history
Alt-Starkenberg Castle was first mentioned in 1217 as an ancestral castle of the Starkenberger in connection with Georg von Starkenberg. It was built in the second half of the 12th century. The castle appears in 1284 and 1290 as the place where documents were issued. The news comes from 1328 that Georg von Starkenberg took over the guardianship of his brother sons and was granted the castle alone for ten years. A letter of indulgence from 1341 refers to the castle chapel of Alt-Starkenberg, consecrated to Saints Georg and Leonhard . In the course of the Starkenberg feud of 1422 with Duke Friedrich IV. The castle was conquered, destroyed and no longer rebuilt.
Only the castle chapel is said to have survived the siege. Their rich reliquary, donated around 1341, was only transferred to the parish church of Tarrenz in 1447. The iron-studded sacristy door is said to have been recovered from the rubble of Alt-Starkenberg. A bell with Gothic minuscule inscription in the St. Vitus Church of the cemetery and particles of the Holy Cross , which were incorporated into a monstrance donated in 1772 in the cross chapel of the parish church, also come from Alt-Starkenberg. These are said to have been brought to Jerusalem by a Starkenberger (possibly Gebhard von Starkenberg in 1215) from a crusade . The indulgence for the day of the discovery of the cross at the castle chapel also speaks for this.
The legend of the underground passage from Altstarkenberg: The Starkenbergers are said to have built an underground passage from Alt- to Neustarkenberg. A crevice north of the Altstarkenberg ruins a few meters above the Salvesenbach was designated as the entrance. Since the castle was destroyed in 1423, this corridor has been guarded by a ghost that blows the light out of every intruder.
Source: Castles, palaces, ruins in North and East Tyrol, Beatrix u. Egon Pinzer, Innsbruck 1996, p. 50
Alt-Starkenberg castle ruins today
The remains of the castle are located in a forest 20 minutes northwest of Tarrenz on a rock spur that protrudes towards Salvesenbach over the orographic left bank of the Salvesenschlucht. The way to the ruin is not signposted. Only a few fragments of the wall remain from the former hilltop castle. The approximately 45 m long Burgplatz slopes 100 m vertically on the southern narrow side. The access from the north was protected by a 13 m neck ditch . Behind it, a 3 m high wall can be seen. Behind it there is a piece of lining wall that indicates a keep with a wall thickness of at least 2 m. At the southern tip of the rock there is an acute-angled wall remnant (2.7 m high and 2 m wide), which is made of roughly worked rubble stones and halfway up with an opus spicatum . The slope on the east side was built over as well, as some low lining walls show. Presumably these parts date from around 1400.
A certain Johann Joseph Freiherr von Coreth zu Coredo and Rumo (noble gentlemen and countrymen in Tyrol) was made Count of Starkenberg in 1760. The latter's family was the owner of Alt- and Neustarkenberg Castle from 1806.
literature
- Oswald Trapp ; Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (employee): Tiroler Burgenbuch. VII. Volume - Upper Inn Valley and Ausserfern . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1986, ISBN 88-7014-391-0 .
Web links
- ALT STARKENBERG on ruins empire
- Entry on RegioWikiAt , further link: Alt-Starkenberg in Sage and Legend.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oswald Trapp & Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner: Alt-Starkenberg , 1986, pp. 216-219.
- ↑ Beatrix u. Egon Pinzer: Castles, palaces, ruins in North and East Tyrol . In: Beatrix u. Egon Pinzer (Ed.): Innsbruck 1996, p. 50 .
- ↑ Otto Titan Hefner: Register of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany: Ed. some German nobles . Manz, 1860 ( google.ch [accessed October 16, 2017]).
- ^ Institute for Genealogy and Heraldry. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .