Mayenburg (Völlan)

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Mayenburg
Mayenburg Voellan Lana-11.jpg
Alternative name (s): Castrum de Uollan
Creation time : 2nd quarter of the 13th century (before 1241)
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Völlan
Geographical location 46 ° 35 '30.9 "  N , 11 ° 8' 55.2"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 35 '30.9 "  N , 11 ° 8' 55.2"  E
Mayenburg (South Tyrol)
Mayenburg

The Mayenburg , also Maienburg and Maienberg , is the ruin of a hilltop castle on an elongated hill near Völlan , a fraction of the market town of Lana in South Tyrol .

history

The castle was built around 1240 in a strategically advantageous location and was part of the fortification system of the Counts of Eppan , a branch line of the Guelphs who, together with the Mayenburg, created the main and administrative castle for the Maienberg- Tisens court, which was spun off from the county of Eppan . In 1241 the complex was first documented as castrum de Uollan (Völlan Castle). When the family died out, the fortress passed into the possession of the Counts of Tyrol in 1253 and temporarily served as the court castle of the Meran court. The Mayenburg court was responsible for those crimes that were not punished with death.

Ludwig Margrave of Brandenburg awarded the Mayenburg castle as a fief to the knightly Hälen family who immigrated from Swabia . In 1375 the castle name comes across as Mayenburch . In 1412 Duke Friedrich IV enfeoffed the castle and the court of Tesimo to the brothers Sigismund, Hans and Georg Häl. The family held the fiefdom for over 200 years until Archduke Ferdinand left it to Jakob Römer in 1570. In 1592 Christoph Lidl received the festivals and the court of Tesimo. In 1648 Franz and Karl Ferdinand Lidl sold the Mayenburg castle to Veit Benno, Count and Herr zu Brandis , for 17,000 florins , who expanded the complex.

View of the castle complex with the Ifinger in the background

In the 19th century the building fell into ruin . In 1814, Count Joseph von Brandis dissolved the fiefdom and sold the Mayenburg castle to a farmer as his own property . The fortress was inhabited until 1825. The owner Johann Wieser had the castle pond filled up and the roof torn down. In 1922, Dr. med. Josef Auffinger from Meran took over the castle and had repairs carried out. His son Dr. med. Roland Auffinger arranged for the keep to be covered with new wooden shingles in 1975. The Mayenburg is still owned by the family today.

investment

The 28 m high keep and the crenellated curtain wall that surround two castle courtyards and the palace are the oldest part of the castle. In the dilapidated chapel, which is dedicated to St. Barbara , there are traces of wall paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries. A round tower served as protection for the castle fountain and as a dovecote .

literature

  • Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume II: Burgrave Office . Athesia Publishing House, Bozen 1980, pp. 278–286.

Web links

Commons : Mayenburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Stolz : Political-historical description of the country of Tyrol . Part 2: South Tyrol (Schlern-Schriften 40). Universitätsverlag Wagner: Innsbruck 1937/39, p. 164ff.
  2. ↑ Martin Bitschnau : Burg und Adel in Tirol between 1050 and 1300. Basics for their research (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports. Vol. 403 = Communications of the Commission for Castle Research and Medieval Archeology. Special Vol . 1). Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983. ISBN 3-7001-0520-7 , p. 336, no. 388. - Here also on the alleged first mention of the castle in 1229 as Castrum Mayberch , a reading for the late 13th or early 14th century (1299 or 1329).
  3. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 387, no.810 .
  4. ^ Johann Jakob Staffler : Tyrol and Vorarlberg: in 2 parts. Part 2: Tyrol and Vorarlberg, topographical. Vol. 2, H. 2.2.2, b . Rauch, 1846 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2017]).
  5. ^ Hans Otzen, Barbara Otzen: Travel Know-How South Tyrol: Travel guide for individual discovery . Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8317-4188-5 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2017]).