Autumn Castle

The autumn castle

The Autumn Castle is a mansion built on a medieval tower , which is located in the South Tyrolean municipality of Toblach .

history

In 1500 the brothers Kaspar and Christoph von Herbst bought the medieval defense tower in order to expand it to its present size. In this way, the residence also received the name of its builder. Christoph von Herbst, who was the judge of Toblach, used Herbstenburg temporarily as his court house.

Subsequently, the residence served the brothers as a so-called Vogteisitz . The residence formed the center of a partially fortified complex that reached as far as the Red Tower in the north-western part of Toblach. An underground corridor connected this with the raised hide. The prisons of the Dobbiaco court were located in the cellar vaults of the Autumn Castle.

Emperor Maximilian I is also known to have stayed at the Autumn Castle between 1508 and 1511. From there he convened the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1508 , and in 1511 it served him as his court quarters. In the summer of 2009, a statue of Emperor Maximilian I was inaugurated on the square in front of the Autumn Castle.

After autumn died out, Gössl, Hans and his brother Georg von Graben zum Stein , Prak and, in 1605, von Walther came into the possession of the Herbstenburg. The following owners were the Laspa, the Lords of Klebelsberg and the (Count) Bossi-Fedrigotti of Ochsenfeld.

Individual evidence

↑ The noble lords of Herbst probably came from the Erbon of Toblach; his son Stephan von Toblach had participated in the pilgrimage to Palestine in 1311 and possibly in the subsequent crusade. Cf. Franz Anton Sinnacher: Contributions to the history of the episcopal church Säben and Brixen in Tyrol, Volume 5. Brixen 1827 ( full text in the Google book search).
↑ This was built around 1430 and named "Hornberger Turm" after its builder, in 1557 it came into the possession of Lords von Kurz zu Thurn and later (1580) sold to the gentlemen (later barons) von Winkelhofen who had immigrated from Swabia. In later years the building was named "Red Tower" because of its reddish paint. The Red Tower has been privately owned since 1736.
^ Eduard Widmoser: South Tyrol AZ. Volume 2: G-Ko. Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1983, ISBN 3-87803-006-X , p. 207 ( limited preview in Google book search)
^ Beda Weber : The Land of Tyrol. With an attachment: Vorarlberg. A guide for travelers. Second volume: South Tyrol. Wagner, Innsbruck 1838, p. 118 ( full text in the Google book search).

literature

Johann Jacob Staffler: Tyrol and Vorarlberg, topographically, with historical notes. Volume 2, Rauch, Innsbruck 1844, pp. 332f. ( Full text in google book search)

Web links

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

Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Toblach: it began in the Hallstatt period
The legend of the autumn castle

46.735949 12.224622Coordinates: 46 ° 44 ′ 9.4 ″ N , 12 ° 13 ′ 28.6 ″ E

[1] The noble lords of Herbst probably came from the Erbon of Toblach; his son Stephan von Toblach had participated in the pilgrimage to Palestine in 1311 and possibly in the subsequent crusade. Cf. Franz Anton Sinnacher: Contributions to the history of the episcopal church Säben and Brixen in Tyrol, Volume 5. Brixen 1827 ( full text in the Google book search).

[2] This was built around 1430 and named "Hornberger Turm" after its builder, in 1557 it came into the possession of Lords von Kurz zu Thurn and later (1580) sold to the gentlemen (later barons) von Winkelhofen who had immigrated from Swabia. In later years the building was named "Red Tower" because of its reddish paint. The Red Tower has been privately owned since 1736.

[3] Eduard Widmoser: South Tyrol AZ. Volume 2: G-Ko. Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1983, ISBN 3-87803-006-X , p. 207 ( limited preview in Google book search)

[4] Beda Weber : The Land of Tyrol. With an attachment: Vorarlberg. A guide for travelers. Second volume: South Tyrol. Wagner, Innsbruck 1838, p. 118 ( full text in the Google book search).