Enn Castle

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The Enn Castle (also Castle Enn ) stands on a hill overlooking the South Tyrolean community Montan near Bolzano .

Enn Castle
Enn Castle

The castle was built by the Edelfreien by Enn in the second half of the 12th century - in 1172 gave them Bishop Albert of Trent the corresponding Burgbaulizenz and the associated Burghut . The area of Truden belonged to the equipment of the office . At the end of the 13th century, the Lords of Enn had to hand over the castle and the associated court to the Counts of Tyrol , who appointed Tyrolean keepers and judges, among them Gottschalk (Gottschlin) of Bozen in the years 1299–1334. In 1321, with the consent of the sovereign, he had ten courtyards laid out in Altrei , whereby this area also came into the court district of Enn and Kaldiff.

The epitaph of Florian Daniel von Vilas, who died in Enn Castle in 1839, in the Montan cemetery

The castle changed hands frequently over the years, until it was given to the Venetian Pietro Zenobio by the sovereign in 1648 , together with the Haderburg including Salurn , Caldiff and Königsberg Castle . There was great protest in the Tyrolean aristocracy against this loan to an influential family of the “hereditary enemy”, the Republic of Venice , from whom the Tyrolean sovereign had taken out credit. The property is still in the possession of the descendants of the patrician family mentioned , Barone Rubin de Cervin-Albrizzi, who had it extended in a neo-Gothic style by the Viennese architect Friedrich von Schmidt in 1880 , and therefore cannot be visited.

Is on the Castle Enn with its holdings to the 15th century, reaching back Enner Castle archive , but which is currently partially in the in Venice is spent located family archives Zenobio-Albrizzi.

Once a year the Montan Music Band organizes a concert at Enn Castle in August, to which a particularly large number of visitors come to Montan, as the atmosphere of the facility is unique and this is the only opportunity to visit the castle.

literature

  • Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner: Enn . 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. 333–362.
  • Viktor Malfèr: Enn or Caldif? In: The Sciliar . No. 49, 1975, pp. 193-196.
  • Giovanni Rubin de Cervin Albrizzi: Enn Castle - rescue and restoration in the 19th century . In: Arx . No. 27, 2005, pp. 3-6.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Huter (ed.), Hanns Bachmann: Handbook of historical sites . Band: Austria. Part 2: Alpine countries with South Tyrol (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 279). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-520-27902-9 , p. 561.
  2. Hannes Obermair : Social Production of Law? The wisdom of the court of Salurn in South Tyrol from 1403 . In: Concilium Medii Aevi . 4 . 2001, pp. 179-208, here: p. 194.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Enn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 19 ′ 54.4 ″  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 27.9 ″  E