Laimburg

Laimburg
Laimburg castle ruins seen from the bottom of the Adige Valley
Creation time :	late 13th century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	ruin
Geographical location	46 ° 23 '1.5 "  N , 11 ° 17' 5.4"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 23 '1.5 "  N , 11 ° 17' 5.4"  E

The Laimburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle on the Mitterberg in the municipality of Pfatten in South Tyrol . It is located on the Kreiter Sattel , which provides a transition from the bottom of the Adige Valley to Lake Kaltern . Immediately to the south above the saddle rises the Leuchtenburg on a hill , to the east below the saddle the Laimburg test center named after the castle .

history

Dendrochronological dating and structural analysis make it likely that the facility was built in the second half of the 13th century. The first documentary mention of the Laimburg goes back to the year 1269, when the Count of Tyrol Meinhard II awarded the vest Layenburg to his confidante, Heinrich Laian (Laianus), who came from a Bolzano bourgeois family.

In the 14th century the castle was owned by the Rottenburger . In 1339 and 1341 it was conquered by the troops of the Bishop of Trento and badly damaged. After the Rottenburgers regained their property, repairs and structural extensions were carried out, with which the fortress reached its present size. In 1410, as part of the Rottenburg feud , the Laimburg passed to Duke Friedrich IV , who in 1424 gave it to the prince's keeper Wilhelm von Waltenhofen. At the end of the 15th century the castle was abandoned.

With the Burghut a spatially little wide, the same name was Landgericht linked belonged to the particular Pfatten as a document of 1488 with the indication "Pháttenn inn Laymburger court" occupied. In addition to Pfatten (Oberviertl and Unterviertl), this also included the farms and hamlets Stadl, Kreit, Klughammer, Gmund and Piglon.

From 1999 to 2001 the ruins were consolidated and archaeologically researched with funds from the Province of South Tyrol, which owns the complex.

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  View of the facility from the Leuchtenburg

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  Inside of the plant

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  Keep

literature

• Richard Staffler: The border preparation of the Bolzano city and district court from 1779 . In: Der Schlern 16, 1935, pp. 347–353 (with the exact boundary description of the Laimburg court from 1780 on p. 352).
• Waltraud Kofler-Engl , Gustav Pfeifer (Hrsg.): The Laimburg: History - Archeology - Restoration . Athesia, Bozen 2006, ISBN 978-88-8266-398-8
• Gustav Pfeifer, Christian Terzer: Laimburg . In: Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (Ed.): Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume X: Überetsch and South Tyrolean Unterland . Athesia Publishing House, Bozen 2011, ISBN 978-88-8266-780-1 , pp. 267-280.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Josef Weingartner : Bolzano castles. 2., completely redesigned. Aufl. Bozen: Athesia 1953, pp. 152–153.
2. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 197, No. 1241 .
3. ↑ Otto Stolz : Political-historical description of the country of South Tyrol. (Schlern writings 40). Innsbruck: Wagner 1937, pp. 201–203.

Web links

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

• Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office