Pfeffersberg castle ruins

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Pfeffersberg castle ruins
Pfeffersberg castle ruins

Pfeffersberg castle ruins

Creation time : around 1194
Castle type : Hill castle
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Burgerbichl, Burger Hills
Geographical location 46 ° 43 '15.2 "  N , 11 ° 38' 35.3"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '15.2 "  N , 11 ° 38' 35.3"  E
Height: 740  m slm
Pfeffersberg castle ruins (South Tyrol)
Pfeffersberg castle ruins

The castle ruin Pfeffersberg , also called Pfefferburg , is a castle ruin on the Pfeffersberg on the western slope of the Brixen basin . The castle hill drops steeply on three sides and is protected against the mountain side in the west by a depression with a fall-back dome. A prehistoric settlement was found here. A treasure tale relating to Pfeffersberg Castle points to its old age. At the top of the hill are the foundations of the keep and further east 3 meters high, about 1.20 m thick walls of the circular wall derived that is likely here to the palace was built. This curtain wall is visible from afar and is mistaken for a vineyard wall. The remains of an old well are located between the keep and the curtain wall. The entire complex is heavily overgrown by undergrowth, so that its dimensions are difficult to see. The hill offers a good view of the city of Brixen and the entire valley basin.

history

Pfeffersberg Castle ( castrum Pfefferwurg ) was built in the second half of the 12th century (1194) on the 740 meter high moraine rubble cone between the Burgerhof and Oberebnerhof. The builder is Hermann vom Michaelstor ( de Porta sti. Michaelis ) a brother of the ministerial and burgrave Albert, founder of the Voitsberg family. This Hermann called himself from now on "von Pfefferberg". The family died out around 1260 with Hermann's grandsons Gottschalk, Arnold and Konrad and then fell back to the Lords of Voitsberg. The Pfeffersberg Castle is mentioned in a document in 1233, when Bishop Heinrich confirmed certain income to the cathedral chapter there . In the course of the feud between the Voitsbergers and Bishop Bruno , Voitsberg Castle was razed, Pfeffersberg Castle was badly damaged and then abandoned. The castle fell into disrepair and was used as a quarry by the surrounding farmers. Marx Sittich von Wolkenstein wrote in his Tyrolean Chronicle (around 1600): “ Apart from Brixen the city, not far on ainen Pichel is an old thuren called Pfeferwurg, but everything has disintegrated ... had its own judge, called Pfeferwurg, but iaz below the city of Bressanone authority ”. The keep and parts of the palace towered up until 1830 , which is why the ruin was called the "desolate tower". In the middle of the 19th century the remains of the keep were destroyed by students, the stones were used to build the post office in Trattengasse. Today the hill and the space in front of it are used privately by the landowner. The remains of the keep and the well as well as the curtain wall are still waiting to be uncovered.

  • Ink drawing with the keep of the Pfefferburg ruin

  • Untereben and Burgfrieden with the Pfefferburg hill

  • The hill of the Pfefferburg ruin with traces of the old entrance

literature

  • Martin Bitschnau , Oswald Trapp : Pfeffersberg . In: Oswald Trapp (Ed.): Tiroler Burgenbuch. IV. Volume: Eisacktal . Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 1977, pp. 22-23.
  • Ignaz Mader : The place names of the municipality of Pfeffersberg near Brixen a. E. (= Schlern writings 37 ). Wagner, Innsbruck 1937. (online)
  • Arthur Maria Scheiber: The Burgraves of Brixen to the construction of the Voitsberg Castle, which gave it its name. Vienna 1947–1949.

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Pfeffersberg  - collection of pictures