Lamprechtsburg

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Lamprechtsburg
South view of the Lamprechtsburg

South view of the Lamprechtsburg

Alternative name (s): Castel Lamberto
Creation time : around 1000 to 1100
Castle type : Spurburg
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Place: Reischach
Geographical location 46 ° 47 '0.1 "  N , 11 ° 57' 52.7"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '0.1 "  N , 11 ° 57' 52.7"  E
Height: 990  m slm
Lamprechtsburg (South Tyrol)
Lamprechtsburg

The Lamprechtsburg ( Castel Lamberto in Italian ) is a medieval castle in the Reischach district , which belongs to the South Tyrolean city ​​of Bruneck . It stands at an altitude of 990 meters on a mountain spur in the Puster Valley , which slopes steeply on three sides to the Rienza Gorge , and thus belongs to the Spornburg type .

Lamprechtsburg, aerial view (2018)

description

The complex has an oval floor plan and is completely surrounded by a circular wall, which has a kennel with a roundabout in the southern part . The castle consists of a simple Palas , a crenellated castle keep (probably the oldest part of the castle), farm buildings and a chapel , dated their current buildings in the 17th century.

A room in the hall with an old, preserved paneling served as an inn until around 1990.

history

The exact origins of the castle have not yet been clarified. A chapel at this point is mentioned in documents as early as 1075/90 as "ad sanctum Lantpertum". Therefore it is assumed that a wooden weir system existed there as early as the 11th century .

Around 1225 either the Lords of Reischach or Count Albert III. von Tirol replace the wooden structure with a stone fortification, which was first mentioned in 1229 when it came to the Lords of Lamprechtsburg as a fief of the Brixen prince-bishopric .

In 1336 the castle was conquered and damaged. Emperor Charles IV mentioned them in his autobiography “acquisivimus castrum montis sancti lamberti”. After the conquest, the Lamprechtsburg came back under Brixen suzerainty, and the damage was repaired.

Like the castles Andraz and Thurn as well as the Kehlburg , the Lamprechtsburg was also sold in 1343 as a fief to the Bruneck citizen Konrad Stuck. After the male line of his family had died out in 1379, the Brixen bishopric no longer awarded the complex, but instead had it administered by episcopal carers for almost 200 years.

In the 1570s, extensive repair work was carried out on the run-down buildings before the castle came to the Winkler von Colz family in 1692. The complex remained in their possession when the castle fell to Tyrol in 1803 in the course of the secularization of the duchy of Brixen. In 1812 the complex and all its goods were sold to the priest Joseph Hauptmann, whose descendant, Elisabeth Niederkofler, is the current owner of the castle.

literature

  • Wilfried Beimrohr, Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner: Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume 9: Val Pusteria. Athesia, Bozen 2003, ISBN 88-8266-163-6 .
  • Thomas Bitterli-Waldvogel: South Tyrolean castle map. South Tyrolean Castle Institute , Bozen 1995, ISBN 88-85176-12-7 .
  • Marcello Caminiti: The castles of South Tyrol. Istituto Geografico de Agostini, Novara 1971.
  • Andreas Löbbecke: Lamprechtsburg . In: Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (Ed.): Tiroler Burgenbuch. IX. Volume: Val Pusteria . Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 2003, ISBN 978-88-8266-163-2 , pp. 211–226.
  • Hanspaul Menara : South Tyrolean castles, palaces and residences. Athesia, Bozen 1999, ISBN 88-7014-808-4 .
  • Christina Niederkofler Cont: Lamprechtsburg: 1000 years of local history . Weger, Brixen 2013, ISBN 978-88-6563-082-2 .

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