Kuntersweg

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The Kuntersweg, color lithograph by Gottfried Seelos , 1867
The Kuntersweg near Bozen, oil painting by Albert Stolz , undated

The Kuntersweg was an old road in the South Tyrolean Eisack Valley . It significantly improved the traffic route between Bolzano and the Brenner Pass . The previously used path first led from Bozen ( 265  m ) to Lengmoos on the Ritten ( 1164  m ) and only reached the Eisack valley at Kollmann ( 500  m ). The new Kuntersweg through the gorge-like lower Eisack valley between Kardaun and Kollmann saved travelers this arduous ascent and descent. The entrepreneurially significant construction work of the re-routing enhanced the Brenner route enormously and favored the development of Bolzano to become the most important trading city in Tyrol . The “losers” of this development were the market town of Gries and above all the old state capital Merano .

history

Established by Heinrich Kunter

Originally the building of the important trade and thoroughfares was the responsibility of the empire , but the empire was not always able to fulfill these tasks. In 1305 , the German King Albrecht von Habsburg ceded customs, road and traffic sovereignty for the area of ​​the County of Tyrol to his cousins, the sons of Meinhard II , as an imperial fief .

On September 22nd, 1314 Heinrich Kunter and his wife Kathrein got the right from Count Heinrich von Tirol, Prince of Tyrol , to create a (mooring) path through the Eisack Gorge from Bozen to Klausen and to raise a road toll for it, as well as to operate two taverns .

Heinrich Kunter died in 1317, his widow continued to run the business on Kunterweg. Heinrich von Tirol issued an ordinance in 1328 which granted Heinrich Kunter's heirs all rights to the Kuntersweg.

Expansion to the guideway

After Kathrein Kunter's death, Kuntersweg was sold to Friedrich Mautner von Burghausen in 1344 , who sold it to Arnold Jaudes from Bolzano on March 29, 1346 for 220 Marks Berner . This exempted him from all duties and established a foundation for the maintenance of the path. However, the Kuntersweg could not be permanently maintained on a private basis. Around 1480, under Prince Archduke Siegmund the Rich in Coin , it was demolished so that it could also be driven on by carts .

The customs houses

The customs house in Kollmann, on the right the Trostburg

On September 22nd, 1484 Archduke Siegmund lifted the exemption from customs duties and had a customs house built in Kollmann . It was given today's striking painting with a white and red checkerboard pattern in 1591. In the course of the 16th century, the customs office was expanded to include a post office. In 1829 both facilities were closed and the building became private property. It has been called Schloss Friedburg since the 19th century . The royal customs house in Kollmann still exists today and was restored from 1979 to 1982 in cooperation with the South Tyrolean Monuments Office .

There was also a customs house in Kardaun at the southern end of the Kuntersweg. However, this was already sold to a private person in 1760.

The Kuntersweg today

The municipality of Karneid had the Kuntersweg repaired as a hiking trail on the occasion of the Tyrolean commemorative year 1809–1984 . It's around five kilometers that can be covered in two and a half hours.

literature

  • Norbert Mumelter: The Kuntersweg. Karneid Municipality, Bozen 1986.
  • Eduard Widmoser: Südtirol A – Z , 3rd volume (Kr – N), Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1988, pp. 57–58
  • Bruno Mahlknecht : Bozen through the centuries . tape 4 . Athesia Spectrum, Bozen 2007, The former Kuntersweg, p. 30-42 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Mahlknecht: Ritten. Famous low mountain range in the sight of the Dolomites . Athesia, Bozen 1998, 5th edition, p. 94.
  2. ^ Hannes Obermair : City and Territory in Tyrol. Side lights from the Middle Ages and early modern times . In: Helmut Flachenecker , Hans Heiss (Ed.): Franconia and South Tyrol. Two cultural landscapes in comparison (=  publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives ). tape 34 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7030-0803-0 , p. 121–131, reference p. 126 .
  3. ^ Helmut Rizzolli: Bozen: the city of markets , in: Merkantilmuseum Bozen, catalog, Bozen 1998, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Bruno Mahlknecht: Bozen through the centuries . tape 4 . Athesia Spectrum, Bozen 2007, The former Kuntersweg, p. 32 .
  5. ↑ Josef Nössing: The customs on Kuntersweg , in: Der Schlern 1986, pp. 88–95.
  6. ↑ Norbert Mumelter: The Kuntersweg. Karneid Municipality, Bozen 1986, p. 16.
  7. ↑ Eduard Widmoser: Südtirol A – Z , 3rd volume (Kr – N), Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1988, p. 57.
  8. ↑ Norbert Mumelter: The Kuntersweg. Karneid Municipality, Bozen 1986, p. 19.
  9. ↑ Norbert Mumelter: The Kuntersweg. Karneid Municipality, Bozen 1986, p. 21.
  10. ^ Eduard Widmoser: Südtirol A – Z , 3rd volume (Kr – N), Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1988, p. 58.
  11. ^ Friedburg
  12. ↑ Helmut Stampfer : Architecture and colors of the customs house in Kollmann , in: Der Schlern , 1986, pp. 96–114.
  13. ↑ Norbert Mumelter: The Kuntersweg. Karneid Municipality, Bozen 1986, p. 25