Castle ruins in the wood

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Castle ruins in the wood
Wall remains

Wall remains

Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, Felslalge
Conservation status: Wall remains
Construction: Field stones
Place: Prissian
Geographical location 46 ° 32 '28.3 "  N , 11 ° 10' 10.2"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '28.3 "  N , 11 ° 10' 10.2"  E
Castle ruins in the wood (South Tyrol)
Castle ruins in the wood

The castle ruin in the wood is a hill castle near Prissian in the municipality of Tesimo in South Tyrol that has been preserved in a few remains of the wall .

geography

The ruin is located on a narrow rocky ridge in a remote forest gorge, in the so-called Peckenloch , between Grissian and Prissian in the Adige Valley .

history

The castle was built by the ministerials of the Counts of Eppan -Ulten in the 13th century (first mentioned in 1226). The Latinized castle name de Silva is attested with Reimbrecht von Holz in 1312.

Status

Remnants of field stone masonry can be found in regular layers in the forest . The castle ruins were placed under monument protection in 1981.

literature

  • Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume II: Burgrave Office . Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 1980, pp. 309-310.

Web links

Commons : Castle ruins in the wood  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol. Volume 2: Bozen and surroundings, Unterland, Burggrafenamt, Vinschgau. 7th edition, edit. by Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner. Bozen-Innsbruck-Vienna: Athesia-Tyrolia 1991. ISBN 88-7014-642-1 , p. 457.
  2. ↑ Martin Bitschnau : Burg und Adel in Tirol between 1050 and 1350. Basics for their research (meeting reports ÖAW, 403). Vienna 1983, p. 270, no. 285.
  3. ^ 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. 177, no. 255 .
  4. ↑ Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office, accessed on October 15, 2019