Leonburg

Leonburg
Alternative name (s):	Lanaberg, Lanaburg
Creation time :	13th Century
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	receive
Place:	Lana
Geographical location	46 ° 35 '4.6 "  N , 11 ° 9' 47.9"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 35 '4.6 "  N , 11 ° 9' 47.9"  E

The Leonburg (also Lanaberg or Lanaburg ) is a medieval hilltop castle south of Lana in South Tyrol . It stands on a porphyry hill on the road towards Gampenpass .

history

The castle was built by the Lords of Brandis at the beginning of the 13th century . It was originally also called Lanaburg . The strategic location of the stronghold was for the purpose of supervision of major Gampenstraße of Lana about Tisens continue toward Gampenpass and Deutschnonsberg leads. In 1236, the building appears in a document for the first time in a division agreement. Pranthoch Brandiser received Brandis Castle , while his three brothers Konrad, Heinrich and Berthold Brandiser shared the Leonburg. In 1275 the complex was stormed by Count Meinhard II of Tyrol . After the threat of another siege, Hilprant von Brandis surrendered his castles to Leonburg and Brandis voluntarily. However, he received his possessions back as a sovereign fief . Since 1295 the Leonburg was under the suzerainty of the Counts of Görz-Tirol . After a catastrophic fire of 1450 that destroyed the residential buildings of the castle, a new one was Palas built. Around 1460 the Counts of Brandis were enfeoffed again with the feast; the facility is still in their possession today. The castle had been uninhabited since the 16th century, as the family had moved to other castles; the castle was always maintained, but hardly changed, which led to the rare result of an almost completely preserved complex in the state of the Middle Ages. It has been inhabited again by the Counts of Brandis since the second half of the 20th century.

investment

The complex comprises two three- story keep , which are connected by a curtain wall . In the converted residential wing there is, among other things, a Gothic room.

literature

• Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume II: Burgrave Office . Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 1980, pp. 268-276.

Web links

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

• Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
• Leonburg on meranerland.org
• Leonburg on burgenwelt.org
• Leonburg on sentres.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Widmoser: Tirol A to Z. Südtirol-Verlag, 1970 ( google.de [accessed on October 15, 2017]).