Brunnenburg

Brunnenburg
	The Brunnenburg below Tirol Castle
Alternative name (s):	Castel Fontana
Creation time :	around 1250
Castle type :	Hillside castle
Conservation status:	Received or received substantial parts
Place:	Dorf Tirol
Geographical location	46 ° 41 '30.8 " N , 11 ° 8' 52.4" E Coordinates: 46 ° 41 '30.8 " N , 11 ° 8' 52.4" E

The Brunnenburg ( Italian Castel Fontana ) is a high medieval hillside castle in Tirolo near Meran in South Tyrol .

history

The castle was probably built around 1250 by the Tyrolean noble family the Taranten; the construction of the oldest parts is certain for at least the 13th century. In 1421 the later Bishop of Brixen Ulrich Putsch acquired the castle. Around 1900 the castle ruins were rebuilt in the historicizing style by the German industrialist Karl Schwickert from Pforzheim . After the Second World War, they acquired Mary and Boris de Rachewiltz .

Mary de Rachewiltz is the daughter of the American poet Ezra Pound and the violinist Olga Rudge . Pound stayed at the Brunnenburg from 1958 to 1962, where he wrote the last of his 120 “ Cantos ”, his main work.

investment

The Brunnenburg, around 1845

The historically not original shape is reminiscent of the royal castles of Ludwig II in Bavaria and the Rhenish castle style.

Today the castle is not only the seat of the de Rachewiltz family, but also houses the "Ezra Pound Center for Literature". It is visited by students from all over the world to study the poet's work.

The Brunnenburg also houses the Brunnenburg Agricultural Museum, founded by Siegfried de Rachewiltz , Peter Lloyd and Franz Haller , about rural culture in South Tyrol, which can be visited.

Individual evidence

↑ Hannes Obermair : Art. Ulrich Putsch . In: Author's Lexicon . Volume 7 (1989), Col. 924-928 ( online )

literature

Cölestin Stampfer : Palaces and castles in Merano and environs . Wagner, Innsbruck 1894, pp. 10-13.
Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume II: Burgrave Office . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1980, pp. 105–111.

Web links

Commons : Brunnenburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Ezra Pound Center for Literature at Brunnenburg Castle ( Memento from September 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Website of the Brunnenburg

[1] Hannes Obermair : Art. Ulrich Putsch . In: Author's Lexicon . Volume 7 (1989), Col. 924-928 ( online )