Boymont Castle

Boymont Castle
	Boymont Castle
Alternative name (s):	Castel Boymont
Creation time :	1220 and 1230
Castle type :	Hill castle
Conservation status:	Preserved essential parts
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Missian
Geographical location	46 ° 29 '1.3 " N , 11 ° 14' 43.6" E Coordinates: 46 ° 29 '1.3 " N , 11 ° 14' 43.6" E
Height:	580 m

Castle Boymont or Boimont is a high medieval castle ruins above the Eppaner district Missian in Überetsch in South Tyrol .

location

The ruin is on a rock ridge. The castle hill was already settled in prehistoric times. This is proven by finds from the Iron Age , including a bronze fibula . Below the castle is Korb Castle .

history

The castle was built between 1220 and 1230. The two decades from 1220 to 1240 can be seen as the heyday of Tyrolean castle building. A large number of structures, including the Haselburg and Runkelstein Castle , were built at that time.

The builders were probably members of a side line of the Counts of Eppan . Between 1239 and 1245 a Heinrich von Boymont, vassal of Count Ulrich von Eppan-Ulten appears in the sources several times. The Lords of Boymont also owned Payrsberg Castle from 1244 .

The later lords of Boymont were also significant, especially the Boymont Beetles ( "Chever de Poimont, Keuer de Poemont" ) in the 14th century . Around 1400 the castle was in the hands of the Upper Austrian clerk Ulrich Kässler (Kassler), who in 1413 married the wealthy heiress Barbara Käfer von Boymont. This middle-class climber was a favorite of the Tyrolean Prince Duke Friedrich with the empty pocket (1382–1439). In 1425 the castle burned down, probably due to arson.

investment

Boymont is a late Romanesque castle complex and was probably built in one go in an almost rectangular shape. The building lines are unusually clearly designed for a high medieval complex and correspond to models from the late Baptist period. Boymont is somewhat defensively designed, but mainly served for comfortable living and less for military control of the area, such as the neighboring Hocheppan Castle . Since the stately complex has not been expanded since the fire of 1425, the large Romanesque residential castle has been preserved with almost no subsequent modifications or additions. The multi-storey palace is located in the southeast corner and shows beautiful triforia that are broken in the curtain wall. The main tower is in the northeast. It has a strange, very large, arched opening facing east, as is also found at the castle ruins of Neuhaus and Burg Payrsberg . Another smaller tower is in the northwest. The castle chapel is on the first floor above the entrance. The still preserved apse faces east. The location of the castle chapel can be compared to that of Schloss Bruck near Lienz in East Tyrol .

The castle ruins have now been consolidated. A restaurant was housed in the inner courtyard.

and display information about the image

View from the tower

gallery

View from the main tower to the Palas, on the lower left Korb Castle
View through the arch of the main tower towards Bolzano
View of the southern outer wall and two arched windows
inside view

literature

Walter Landi, Udo Liessem: Boimont . 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. 117–150.
Thomas Biller: Boymont near Bozen. Shape, function and meaning of a late Romanesque castle. In: Der Schlern 93 (2019), H. 7/8, pp. 4–69.

Individual evidence

^ 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. 159 ff., No. 203, 220 and 706 .
^ Otto Stolz : The forgery of documents by the Upper Austrian clerk Ulrich Kassler and the acquisition of Boimont Castle near Eppan around 1410–1420. In: Festschrift in honor of Oswald Redlich . Wagner: Innsbruck 1928, pp. 189-234.

Web links

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

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

[1] 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. 159 ff., No. 203, 220 and 706 .

[2] Otto Stolz : The forgery of documents by the Upper Austrian clerk Ulrich Kassler and the acquisition of Boimont Castle near Eppan around 1410–1420. In: Festschrift in honor of Oswald Redlich . Wagner: Innsbruck 1928, pp. 189-234.