Neuhaus castle ruins (Terlan)

Neuhaus castle ruins
Alternative name (s):	Maultasch Castle
Creation time :	First mentioned in 1228
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	ruin
Place:	Terlan
Geographical location	46 ° 31 '30.7 " N , 11 ° 15' 16.5" E Coordinates: 46 ° 31 '30.7 " N , 11 ° 15' 16.5" E
Height:	383 m

The Neuhaus castle ruins (also called Maultasch Castle ) are the ruins of a castle above the wine village of Terlan in the South Tyrolean Adige Valley between Bolzano and Merano .

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From the valley you can see little more than the characteristic, four-sided and five-sided pentagonal keep , which stands at the highest point of the castle rock, is still fully preserved and was previously habitable up to the topmost brick floor. The tower, without crenellations, could have had a habitable, wooden upper facade. Only on the castle hill does it become clear that it is an extensive castle complex with several still reasonably preserved outer castles with ring walls including partially stunted dovetail pinnacles. Of the four-story hall to the west of the keep, the full height of the south wall and the basement rooms with a rainwater cistern have been preserved. The castle chapel with a block altar and the remains of a vaulted gallery belong to the 15th / 16th century. A connecting tunnel driven through the rock creates the connection to the barrel vaulted room in the east wing of the castle.

The outside pentagonal and inside square keep
inside view
Keep from the inside

history

The complex is mentioned for the first time in the written sources in 1228 and was probably built shortly after 1200 by the Counts of Tyrol as a border fortress towards the Bolzano area. In the second half of the 13th century, a customs post was built below the castle. Due to the permanent occupation of Bozen by Count Meinhard II of Tyrol, the castle and hermitage quickly lost their military importance. After 1300 Neuhaus was only the center of the regional court of the same name , which was roughly the size of today's municipality of Terlan.

The castle was according to legend one of the favorite locations of the country's Princess Margaret Maultasch and received after the removal of the underlying hermitage in the 19th century, the more common name Castle Maultasch . However, the countess's legendary stays at Neuhaus are not historically documented.

In 1362 a nearby bridge over the Adige is attested as "pons aput Nouam domum" , the older course of which before the regulations of the 19th century led past Neuhaus; the castle apparently controlled this important river crossing at this time.

From 1382 to 1559 Neuhaus was owned by the Lords of Niedertor, who came from Bolzano and who, through this fief, made it into the landed gentry. After their extinction, the Wolkensteiners followed from 1585 to 1733 . Since 1733 Neuhaus has been owned by the Counts Tannenberg- Enzenberg . Hugo Graf Enzenberg secured the keep from decay in 1883. The entire complex was restored by Count Georg Enzenberg between 1990 and 1996. Parts of the system were fixed and new roofs and railings were installed.

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Panoramic view from the Neuhaus castle ruins over the Adige Valley

literature

Sighard Graf Enzenberg: Nova domus (Neuhaus near Terlan) . In: Der Schlern , 1921, pp. 121–125. (on-line)
Franz Huter : Art. Neuhaus . In: Handbook Historic Sites Austria, Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Kröner 1978, p. 596.
Rudolf Tasser: Neuhaus . In: Oswald Trapp (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume VIII: Bolzano area . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1989, ISBN 978-88-7014-495-6 , pp. 275-302.

Remarks

↑ Rudolf Tasser: Neuhaus. In: Oswald Trapp (Ed.): Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume VIII: Bolzano area. Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1989, ISBN 978-88-7014-495-6 , pp. 275ff.
^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 349, no.709 .

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Neuhaus - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Neuhaus Castle on burgenwelt.org

[1] Rudolf Tasser: Neuhaus. In: Oswald Trapp (Ed.): Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume VIII: Bolzano area. Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1989, ISBN 978-88-7014-495-6 , pp. 275ff.

[2] Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 349, no.709 .