Castle ruins Kastellatz (Mals)

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Kastellatz castle ruins
Wall remains

Wall remains

Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall remains
Place: Premajur
Geographical location 46 ° 42 '23.3 "  N , 10 ° 30' 36.5"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 42 '23.3 "  N , 10 ° 30' 36.5"  E
Height: 1651  m slm
Kastellatz castle ruins (South Tyrol)
Kastellatz castle ruins

The castle ruin Kastellatz is a ruin preserved in poor wall remains near Schlinig , municipality of Mals . At 1,651 m above sea level, Kastellatz is the highest hill fort in South Tyrol .

location

The castle ruins are located on a hill above the Benedictine Abbey of Marienberg that was already settled in prehistory . It is a narrow, extended condition, wherein the keep is located on the highest point of the Burg square.

history

The Counts of Tarasp are given as builders . In 1146 Kastellatz is described as "castrum suum Castelletz" and razed in the same year on the orders of Count Ulrich von Tarasp .

literature

  • Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume I: Vinschgau . Verlagsanstalt Athesia, Bozen 1972, pp. 33–35.

Web links

Commons : Kastellatz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on Kastellatz in the private database "Alle Burgen".