Bruck Castle (Lienz)

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Bruck Castle

Bruck Castle is located in southern East Tyrol in the urban area of ​​the district capital Lienz . It is built on a hilltop that hugs Lienz's local mountain, Hochstein. The castle was the residence of the Counts of Gorizia from around 1278 to 1500. It has a castle chapel with frescoes by Simon von Taisten . It has served as a museum for the city of Lienz since 1943 .

history

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The oldest finds, including two axes made of copper or bronze , which indicate the settlement of the area around the Schlossberg , are approx. 3000 years old. Bruck Castle was built by the Counts of Gorizia between 1252 and 1277 and served as their residence until 1500. When the last Count of Gorizia, Leonhard von Görz, died childless in the same year , all of his possessions, including Schloss Bruck, fell to King Maximilian I , the later emperor , who united it with the County of Tyrol . After a short period of ownership by Virgil von Graben , Maximilian sold the rule of Lienz, including the castle, to Baron Michael von Wolkenstein on August 10, 1501 for "perpetual redemption" for 22,000 guilders. The barons stayed in the castle until around 1608. The brothers Sigmund and Christoph von Wolkenstein-Rodenegg built the Liebburg on today's main square in Lienz as a residential palace between 1606 and 1608 due to the cold in the castle. From 1796 until the occupation of the city by troops of the French Republic under General Joubert in 1797, Bruck Castle was used as a barracks . In the following years it was privately owned and served as an inn, brewery and shipping company . On June 13, 1943, the local history museum of the East Tyrol region was opened in Bruck Castle.

museum

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Today the castle is a museum of the city of Lienz and houses many pictures by the Lienz painter Albin Egger-Lienz . Children's workshops and exhibitions (e.g. the Provincial Exhibition 2000, which included East Tyrol, Brixen and Trentino ) are held again and again . The surroundings of the castle with the picturesque forest around a small pond near the gate is a popular area for walks and the starting point for many hiking trails. The castle is open from mid-May to the end of October. In 2007 the museum received the Tyrolean Museum Prize .

The approximately 37 meter high keep of the castle can be climbed as part of the museum visit. On the top level of the tower there is a circumferential viewing gallery from which there is a very good view of Lienz and the surrounding mountains.

Exhibitions

  • 2008 Guizhou - China's realm of tones and colors.
  • 2009 Threat & Idyll. The image of man in Austria 1918–1938.
  • 2010 Treasures from the Puster Valley . Gothic & Baroque Part I.
  • 2011 The way out. Gothic & Baroque Part II.
  • 2012 Egger-Lienz | Forest | Mountain . About the country. (three parallel exhibitions with the Museum Kitzbühel and the Werner Berg Museum )
  • 2013 Hermann Pedit . Work 1950–2013.
  • 2013 Franz Walchegger . Painting under the sign of classical modernism.
  • 2013 Fish dishes - fish history.
  • 2014 Leopold Ganzer (1929–2008). Nature and abstraction - a symbiosis.
  • 2014 Dolomite domino 2.
  • 2014 Dance of Death . Egger-Lienz and the war. (Cooperation with the Austrian Gallery Belvedere )
  • 2014–2015 spotlight. Lienz and the valley floor. (Cooperation with the TAP - Tyrolean Archive for Photographic Documentation and Art)
  • 2015 artwork Alps.
  • 2015 Jos Pirkner . Figure and space.
  • 2015–2016 Paradise under threat. Heinrich Kühn (1866–1944) photographs in color.
  • 2016 architect Raimund Abraham . Back home. (Cooperation with the AZW - Architekturzentrum Wien )
  • 2015–2017 Albin Egger-Lienz (1868–1926). I don't paint peasants, I paint shapes.
  • 2015–2017 Home / Front. Lienz and the war 1914–1918. (Cooperation with the TAP - Tyrolean Archive for Photographic Documentation and Art)
  • 2016–2017 look back. Museum and collection history.
  • 2017 Archaic - high-tech. Design: EOOS and the Schloss Bruck Collection. (Cooperation with EOOS)
  • 2018 paint me the sky! Simon von Taisten and his late Gothic frescoes at Bruck Castle.

literature

  • Meinrad Pizzinini, Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner: Bruck Castle . In: Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. IX. Volume: Val Pusteria . Athesia Publishing House, Bozen 2003, ISBN 978-88-8266-163-2 , pp. 439–474.

Web links

Pond in the castle park
Commons : Schloss Bruck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EggerLienz-Walde-Berg. Across the country ( memento of October 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ′ 54 ″  N , 12 ° 44 ′ 56 ″  E