Neu-Rettenberg castle ruins
| Neu-Rettenberg castle ruins | ||
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 Neu-Rettenberg castle ruins from the south |
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| Creation time : | around 1500 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Kolsassberg | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 17 '38.1 " N , 11 ° 38' 40.9" E | |
| Height: | 722 m above sea level A. | |
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The Neu-Rettenberg castle ruin is the ruin of a hilltop castle on a small hill in the municipality of Kolsassberg in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol (Florian-Waldauf-Weg).
History of Neu-Rettenberg Castle
After the Alt-Rettenberg Castle was demolished in 1492, Florian Waldauf von Waldenstein built the Neurettenberg Castle further north of it. Their St. Anna chapel was consecrated in 1506. The castle was the starting point for deer and chamois hunts by Emperor Maximilian I.
Since Florian Waldauf's descendant, his eldest son Johann, died without children, the system soon came into new hands. As early as 1524, a Georg Mayer was named as the owner of Rettenberg Castle in a legal act . Other owners are: Oswald von Wolkenstein (1528), who had the not yet fully completed castle completed, in 1530 the fortress was completed and armed with cannons in the corner rondelles. In 1535 King Ferdinand transferred the pledge to the barons Simon and Hans von Wolkenstein. Then the castle came to Wilhelm Gienger (1559); At that time the castle was still in good condition, an inventory listed four breech loading guns, two mortars, twenty hook rifles, seven double hook rifles and two guns on wheels. Neurettenberg next came to the Puchheims (1582), then to Johann Kolowrat (1595), Anton Freiherr von Landau (1602), Johann Dücker von Haslau (1610) and to the Count Fieger von Friedberg (from 1649). In the 18th century, Rettenberg Castle fell into disrepair and the seat of the court was moved to Volders (probably as early as the 17th century) . On July 1, 1791, the countesses Juliane and Justiane von Fieger were able to acquire the rule as their own . After the death of the countesses, Viktor Freiherr von der Lochau took over the rule of Rettenberg in full ownership through a contract with the Fieger heirs and as a co-heir on November 6, 1798. He let the jurisdiction exercise by appointed judges until the court of Rettenberg was taken over by the state in 1825 and merged with the district court of Hall.
Already in 1798 the Kolsass pastor Georg Ruf, who was planning a new church in Kolsass, bought the already partially dilapidated castle. He had all the iron window grilles, iron doors and beams torn out and the high roof and stairs for the church building demolished. The remains of the castle ruins with the adjacent fields were finally sold to Cassian Schweiger, who had been resident in the castle courtyard for many years; this family still owns the facility today.
Neu-Rettenberg today
In 1810, Neurettenberg was largely demolished and the material obtained was used to rebuild the Wattener Laurentiuskirche, which burned down on April 22, 1809 , because the planned church in Kolsass had not come into being. The residential building of the castle was completely demolished in 1914 due to acute danger of collapse.
Neurettenberg is still a remarkable facility with the remains of the former Palas , a rectangular ring wall , four inwardly open Eck washers with key- or mouth-holes and the remains of a castle gate. The ditch in front of the gate of the southern curtain wall was leveled. A two-story farm building is integrated into the eastern curtain wall; On the facade of the Schlossbauer farm , a view of Rettenberg catches the eye ( fresco by Franz Krautgasser from 1959), on which the handover of Rettenberg in 1492 by Emperor Maximilian I to the knight Florian Waldauf zu Waldenstein can be seen.
In 1960 security work began. Today the plant is owned by Josef Schweiger.
literature
- Georg Clam Martinic : Castles and palaces in Austria . Landesverlag in Veritas Verlag, Linz 1991, ISBN 3-85214-559-7 .
- R. Harb: History of the court and the castle Rettenberg. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. Vol. 62 (1982), pp. 73-87. ( PDF (14.1 MB) on ZOBODAT )
Web links
- Neu-Rettenberg castle ruins on Austria Forum
- Neu-Rettenberg castle ruins on Burgen.tibs
- RETTENBERG on Ruinsimperium.at
- Entry via Neu-Rettenberg to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ R. Harb, p. 80.
- ^ Neurettenberg in Kolsassberg