Castel Pergine
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| Creation time : | first mentioned in the 12th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Place: | Pergine | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 3 '33.4 " N , 11 ° 14' 56.3" E | |
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Castel Pergine (German Burg Persen ) is a castle in the northern Italian province of Trento , which is located in the east above the city of Pergine Valsugana . It is possible that there was already a system from Roman times in its place . Because of its strategic position, the square was also used in the Middle Ages.
The current castle was built in the late Gothic style.
history
The first evidence of a castle at this point date from the year 845. In the 12th century, the castle belonged to the Lords of Pergine, changed hands several times and passed to the Habsburgs under Margaret of Tyrol . In 1531 they donated the castle to the bishop of Trento Bernhard von Cles . Until 1905 the castle belonged to the diocese of Trento, which left it to its governors for use ( Firmian , Madruzzo , Wolkenstein , the last governor was Antonio Giuseppe Girardi).
From 1805 until 1905 it was leased to farming families. During this time the castle deteriorated more and more. In March 1905 was of an anti-Semitic nationalist-minded from the Munich publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann acquired initiated Aktiengesellschaft, which began to restore the facility and in the castle instituted a hotel and a restaurant in 1906 by the historian and later Christian Social Chancellor Michael Mayr , a leading member of the German national Tyrolean Volksbund . The work had to be interrupted in 1913. In 1920 the municipality of Pergine acquired the castle, but in 1956 it was forced to sell it again to Mario Oss, a Swiss native from Pergine.
The Oss family had Castel Pergine renovated and set up a hotel and restaurant there. In the summer months, the castle was also used as an exhibition space for art exhibitions. After it became known in 2017 that the castle was for sale and the municipality of Pergine was unable to buy it, private individuals set up a committee and then a charitable foundation with the aim of purchasing the castle. At the end of 2018, Castel Pergine was transferred to this non-profit foundation, supported by over 800 people and around 50 institutions and associations.
description
The castle is surrounded by a wall that has a passage towards the Pergine. There are various watchtowers on the completely preserved wall .
The entrance hall, kitchen, cellar and access to the garden are located on the ground floor of the castle itself.
The former throne room (today the reception), the chapel and the restaurant are on the first floor.
On the second floor there are five halls: Sala del Balconcino (Balcony Room), Sala del Vescovo (Bishop's Hall), Sala della Stufa Verde (Room of the Green Stove), Sala del Principe (Room of the Prince) and the Sala della Dama Bianca (Room of the White woman), in these there are various exhibitions.
The ground floor and the first floor are always accessible. The second floor can also be visited. Guided tours of the castle are offered from April to November.
photos
Burggarten
External watchtower on the castle wall
Keep
View from the castle to Pergine
various
- The White Lady ( La dama bianca ) is said to be the ghost of a woman who was murdered in the castle and still haunts the castle today.
- In the prison of the drops ( Prigione della goccia ), a former holding cell, inmates are said to have been tortured by a steadily falling drop of water .
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Wedekind: Tourism and Nation. On the politicization of travel in the late Habsburg Monarchy . In: Hannes Obermair u. a. (Ed.): Regional civil society in motion. Festschrift for Hans Heiss (= Cittadini innanzi tutto ). Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2012, ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4 , p. 68–93, here: p. 73 .
- ↑ The Medieval Castle , accessed on March 7, 2017.
- ↑ Historical chronology , accessed December 5, 2018.
- ↑ Fondazione Castel Pergine: “Domani presso lo studio notarile Donato Narciso di Borgo Valsugana verra sottoscritto l'atto di compravendita del Castello di Pergine”. In: agenziagiornalisticaopinione.it. November 28, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 (Italian).
Web links
- Castel Pergine website (it-de-en)
- Website Castel Pergine Foundation (it-de-en)