Haselburg

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Haselburg
Haselburg near Bozen (South Tyrol)

Haselburg near Bozen (South Tyrol)

Alternative name (s): Castel Flavon Küepach
Castle
Creation time : around 1200 to 1250
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Preserved essential parts
Place: Haslach
Geographical location 46 ° 28 '36.6 "  N , 11 ° 20' 36.9"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 28 '36.6 "  N , 11 ° 20' 36.9"  E
Haselburg (South Tyrol)
Haselburg

The Haselburg (also: Haselberg ) is a half- ruin near Bozen in South Tyrol , above the Haslach district.

history

Like other major castles in the area ( Castle Boymont , Runkelstein Castle ) was the Haselburg in the first decades of the 13th century built by the Lords of Costanosellari that led its name from Bolzano district Haslach. The hilltop castle was created as a result of the so-called high medieval vertical displacement of castle seats, when mansions originally located in the middle of the settlement association were relocated to the heights primarily for reasons of social prestige, but also for military reasons. As ministerials of the bishopric of Trento and as its episcopal guest ald, the Haselbergers held an important position of power in the Bolzano area and held the rulership and judicial rights of the Bolzano parish, which they sold to Count Meinhard II for a large sum of money in 1259 .

Destroyed around 1300, parts of the castle were subsequently rebuilt.

Its current appearance is determined by the renovation work carried out by Leonhard II von Völs in the middle of the 16th century . In the 18th and 19th centuries, large parts of the castle became ruins after a fire.

On June 18, 1933, youth groups founded the National Socialist “South Tyrolean Home Front” on the Haselburg , which was renamed “ Völkischer Kampfring Südtirols ” from 1934 onwards .

Today there is a congress center with an attached restaurant in the castle.

The castle towers over the municipal cemetery in Oberau .

investment

The motif-rich frescoes from the Renaissance (including half-length portraits of ancient emperors and generals as well as scenes from their lives by Bartlmä Dill Riemenschneider and scenes from the ancient myth of Apollo ) are well worth seeing .

literature

  • Matthias Schmelzer: Haselburg . In: Oswald Trapp (Ed.): Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume VIII: Bolzano area . Athesia publishing house: Bozen 1989. ISBN 978-88-7014-495-6 , pp. 77-99.
  • Hanns-Paul Ties: The barons of Völs and antiquity. Image programs of the Renaissance in the castles of Prösels and Haselburg (South Tyrol) . In: Stefanie Lieb (ed.): Burgen im Alpenraum (research on castles and palaces, vol. 14). Petersberg 2012, pp. 171-184.

Individual evidence

  1. Hannes Obermair : Church and city development. The parish church of Bozen in the High Middle Ages (11th – 13th centuries) . In: The Sciliar . 1995, p. 466 .
  2. Gottfried Solderer (Ed.): The 20th Century in South Tyrol . Volume 2: Fascist ax and swastika 1920–1939 . Bozen: Raetia 2000. ISBN 88-7283-148-2 , pp. 278-279.

Web links

Commons : Haselburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
  • Haselburg