Labers Castle

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Labers Castle from the southwest

Labers Castle from the west

Two guests with the house dog in 1926. In the biography of the Reichstag representative Margarete Behm , a few pages are devoted to the repeated vacations in the pension.

Schloss Labers is a castle in Merano district Labers ( South Tyrol ). It is located at an altitude of about 520  m slm east above Obermais and is a listed building. It is used as a hotel.

history

In the year 1125 a farm "Laubers", presumably a permanent house , was first mentioned in a document after its first inhabitants, but it is said to have been inhabited by Ulrich von Laubers between 1077 and 1082. It is not known where he came from and whether he built the farm. The castle had been a Tyrolean aristocratic seat since the 11th or 12th century.

After the Laubers died out, the farm passed into the possession of Christian von Angerheim from Untermais , whose son Heinrich was Marshal of Tyrol and who expanded the farm into a castle complex.

In the following centuries the castle changed hands several times. Jakob Auer bought the property in 1429 and in 1452, at the time of Duke Sigismund , the Baumkircher brothers are certified as owners. In 1550, Chancellor Beatus Widmann is listed as the owner and after numerous other generations of neighboring castles as owners, the bombards appear in 1812 and the surgeon Richard Kirchlechner in 1823. He was followed in 1843 by the royal councilor Leo von Klenze , an advisor to King Ludwig I of Bavaria . In 1885/86 the castle was converted by Musch & Lun into an accommodation facility until it was finally acquired in 1891 by the Dane Adolph Neubert, who set it up as a guesthouse. The writer Elisabeth Bürstenbinder lived in the castle from 1896 until her death in 1918. The two corner towers go back to this conversion. Since then, the building has been privately owned by the family.

Due to the renovations in 1885/86 and the adaptations after 1891, hardly anything remained of the old appearance and apart from the visible medieval stone layers in the cellar and the St. Michael chapel from the 15th century, nothing of the old structure has been preserved.

During the Second World War , the interim storage facility for the distribution of counterfeit pound notes in southern Europe was set up in the castle. From here, Friedrich Schwend put the counterfeit money produced in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as part of Aktion Bernhard into circulation. The print shop in blocks 18 and 19 in the so-called "small camp" of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was equipped with the most sophisticated machines and, among other things, provided the means to pay for the best-paid spy " Cicero " at the time.

Since the end of the war, Schloss Labers has been used as a hotel again.

Building description

The dominant component is the mighty three-story tower on the western corner of the building with a rectangular floor plan and rectangular windows on the lower floors and coupled arched windows on the second floor. On the south side of the tower there is a wooden veranda on the first floor , which is closed off by a pent roof. The tower has a high hipped roof with dormers , the ridge ends of which are crowned by tower balls. At the southern corner of the building is a wooden corner bay window with a pointed roof.

The building fronts each have an upper floor, regularly arranged rectangular windows with profiled reveals and roofs with dormer windows.

literature

• Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume II: Burgrave Office . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1980, pp. 178–181.

Web links

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

• Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
• Schloss Labers website , accessed on January 17, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ [Lawrence Malkin, "Hitler's Money Counterfeiters, 2008]
2. ↑ Schloss Labers at www.burgen-adi.at , accessed on January 17, 2016
3. ↑ Schloss Labers at www.burggrafenamt.com , accessed on January 17, 2016

Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 7 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 28.7"  E