Johanneskofel

Johanneskofel
height	660  m slm
location	Sarner Gorge, South Tyrol , Italy
Mountains	Sarntal Alps
Coordinates	46 ° 32 '59 "  N , 11 ° 22' 7"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '59 "  N , 11 ° 22' 7"  E

The Johanneskofel (also Johanniskofel ) is a 660  m high prominent rock in South Tyrol . Located in the Sarner Gorge in the municipality of Ritten , it takes its name from the St. John's Chapel that stands on its top today. The history of the rides offshore rock reaches far back into the past. Excavations brought important finds from the Neolithic (4th and 3rd millennium BC) to light.

Today there are scant traces of a castle on the rock tower : the remains of an extensive curtain wall and a rainwater cistern. The current Gothic chapel is believed to have replaced the old castle chapel. A staircase carved into the stone leads up to the ruins. Little is known about the history of the castle that was once built on this exposed rock. The inconspicuous ceramic finds from the 12th and early 13th centuries show that it was used at this time. Probably the first seat of the Lords of Wangen, first mentioned in 1174, is to be found on the Johanneskofel. So it should have been made at the beginning of the 12th century. In 1326 it was already in ruins. Around 1600, Marx Parakeet von Wolkenstein named the Lords of Weineck as the last owners of the already dilapidated castle in his “Tiroler Landesbeschreibung” and describes the Johanneskofel as follows:

"San Johannes Koffl. Dise still closed cheeks in court as if words had fallen apart and only mer unconcerned, from [except] the churches, so still in inns [dignity, in good standing] ; So I don’t even find out who built it, except that von Weineck had it down to the last. "

literature

• Josef Nössing: Johanneskofel . In: Oswald Trapp (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. V. Volume: Sarntal . Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 1981, ISBN 88-7014-036-9 , pp. 79-81.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marx parakeet of Wolkenstein: Description of the country of South Tyrol. Ceremony for Hermann Wopfner's 60th year of life. Written around 1600, for the first time from the manuscripts ed. by a study group of Innsbruck historians (Schlern-Schriften 34). Innsbruck: Wagner 1936, p. 245. digitized