Gufidaun
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Gufidaun ( Italian Gudon ) is a village with 500 inhabitants in the municipality of Klausen in South Tyrol ( Italy ).
The place is located in the Eisack valley to the east above the city center of Klausen. It is located on a low mountain range terrace at an altitude of 730 m . On the north side the terrain breaks off steeply to the lower Villnößtal . Gufidaun is first mentioned as " Cubidunes " in a traditional note from Freising Bishop Lantpert from the years 937–957 .
history
Gufidaun was already settled 2000 years before the birth of Christ. Later Gufidaun was settled by Räts and Romans, as found by South Tyrolean archaeologists at the Josef-Telfner-Haus, at the village museum and near Aichholz show. Around the 6th century AD, besides the Romanesque population, Bavaria also settled in Gufidaun.
In Gufidaun there were already two stately residences in the Middle Ages : the Koburg and Summersberg Castle . From 1220 there was a high court here , which was not only responsible for jurisdiction, but also for political administration. The courts often remained in the possession of one and the same noble family for decades, in Gufidaun these were the Counts of Thun for 150 years and the Counts of Wolkenstein-Trostburg from 1619 to 1828 .
Gufidaun gained great importance in the 16th century. So were Jakob Hutter , founder of emigrants to North America today Hutterites , and his pregnant wife Catherine captured in the court of Gufidaun. While the lady of the castle helped his wife to escape, Jakob Hutter was burned at the stake in front of the Golden Roof in Innsbruck .
Attractions
The parish church of St. Martin was consecrated in 1455 by Bishop Nicolaus Cusanus , but was first mentioned in 1280. The fresco decoration dates from the 15th century: Barbara cycle (Brixen workshop), Koburg chapel (1465, painter Ambrosius Gander ), Marientod (west facade, around 1430), Christophorus (tower facade) and a seated Madonna (1460, Leonhard Scherhauff ).
Built in 1678 by the Archigrammaticus Johann Paul Schenk, the tower landlord is known as the “history writer's house”. There are paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries on both the outside and the inside. Today the Turmwirt is an inn. The residence “Hohes Haus” or “Hohenhaus” was the seat of the courts in the Eisack Valley from the 17th to the 19th century , as far as Villnöß and Gröden . In the middle of the 18th century it was expanded by the then governor Caspar Paris Wolkenstein. Today it is a library and also houses the “Earth Treasure Chest”, Gufidaun's archeology museum.
In 1329 the court lord Georg von Villanders had the medieval Summersberg Castle built in Gufidaun. The name of the castle goes back to the Summersberg family, which was first mentioned in 1202. The Tyrolean legend researcher Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle acquired the castle in 1880. It is still privately owned by the Zingerle family today.
The Koburg , still owned by the Lords of Gufidaun in the 14th century, had to be renovated because it was destroyed in a fire in 1571. The Koburg has culturally and historically important wall paintings and was owned by the von Mayrhofen family until 1818. The Austrian philosopher Tobias Wildauer acquired it in 1883. Today the castle is privately owned.
The village museum is located in the “Pflegehaus”, which is also known as the “Krösshaus” because of its previous owner, Josef Kröss. The village museum gives an insight into the life and culture of the rural population in South Tyrol .
Today tourism in Gufidaun is an important industry.
Furthermore, Gufidaun is the ideal place to stay for those who love to hike. In the immediate vicinity there are various possibilities for a hike, for example on the "Putzen", "Rafeil", to the waterfalls or in the direction of "Fonteklaus". It should also be added that the two castles "Schloss Koburg" and "Schloss Summersberg" at the Gufidauner Kulturmeile, which takes place every two years, open their gates and make the inner courtyard available as a setting.
Some archaeological excavations in the village center, which are located on the square next to the village museum, are explicitly described by signs and testify to the early settlement of Gufidaun.
Personalities
- Franz Zoller (1726–1778), baroque painter
- Sepp Messner Windschnur (* 1946), musician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 110 No. 144 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ' N , 11 ° 36' E