Koenigsberg Castle (Faedo)
The Königsberg Castle or Castel Monreale , Italian Castello di Monreale or Montereale , is located in the municipality of Faedo in northern Italy Trentino and it ranks among the ortsprägensten buildings. A castle complex is said to have stood there as early as Roman times .
Today's castle goes back to a high mediaeval castle, which was first mentioned in 1238 as castrum regalis and was originally built by the Counts of Eppan as a secondary castle. In the striking facade of the building and the chapel with frescoes from the 16th century, several conversions and extensions from the early modern period are reflected.
history
In 1243, the Prince-Bishop of Bressanone, Egno von Eppan , confirmed that he held Königsberg Castle together with his nephews Georg and Friedrich von Eppan-Hocheppan as a fief of the Diocese of Trento . In 1276 Count Meinhard II of Görz-Tirol received the castle as a fief. The prince-bishops no longer exercised their right of lease, so that Königsberg remained a fiefdom of the Counts of Tyrol and, since 1363, their heirs, the Habsburgs.
These employed various keepers, feudal takers and castle captains as well as pledges, including the Lords of Thun from 1407 to 1559 , who held it again from 1627 to 1648. In the period from 1508 to 1559, the brothers Christoph and Bernhard, then Sigmund von Thun, converted the dilapidated castle into a renaissance castle. This is evidenced by an open, splendid fireplace with a marble architrave with an inscription and the Thun-Neudeck alliance coat of arms, above it a Thun- Eschenloch coat of arms fresco , as well as the triforias in the knight's hall and in the courtroom of the east palace. Frescoes were installed in the representation rooms and the chapel was painted, probably under Sigmund von Thun († 1559), the builder of Palazzo Thun in Trento. Remnants of the external plaster suggest a light yellow coat of paint with a checkered wall with red bottles.
In 1648 the castle, together with the lords of Enn , Caldiff and Salurn, was given to the Zenobio patrician family from Venice, from whom the Habsburgs had taken out loans. There was great protest in the Tyrolean nobility against this feudal grant to an influential family of the “hereditary enemy” Republic of Venice . The Venetian Counts Albrizzi inherited these possessions from the Zenobio in 1817, and in the 20th century they passed, again by inheritance, to the Barons Rubin de Cervin-Albrizzi, who lived at Enn Castle.
In 1976, the Schmid family, owners of the Rametz Castle wine-growing business in Merano, acquired Königsberg Castle and the associated vineyard, which was enlarged to 29 hectares. In 1986 the roofs were renewed and the castle was given basic security. Inside, however, it is still neglected and used as workers' accommodation and equipment depot.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannes Obermair u. a .: The traditional notes of the Augustinian canons of St. Michael ad Etsch (San Michele all'Adige): Preparatory work for the “Tyrolean Document Book” (= communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research 105 ). 1997, ISSN 0073-8484 , p. 263–329, reference p. 273 .
- ^ Konrad Fries: Königsberg Castle in Tyrol , in ARX. Castles and palaces in Bavaria, Austria and South Tyrol , published by the South Tyrolean Castle Institute , 1/2018, pp. 10–18
- ↑ Faedo tourism information
- ↑ Tourist information on Castello di Montereale
- ↑ Harvest report 2012 Rametz winery
Coordinates: 46 ° 12 ′ 14.6 ″ N , 11 ° 9 ′ 10.4 ″ E