Sigmundsried Castle

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Sigmundsried Castle
Sigmundsried Castle
Coat of arms of the von Ried im Oberinntal

The Castle Sigmundsried is located in the town of Ried im Oberinntal in the Landeck district of Tyrol (house number 98). The village castle stands at the southwestern end of the village of Ried im Oberinntal on the edge of an elevated indoor terrace. The trade route (in Roman times the military route Via Claudia Augusta ) over the Reschen Pass could be controlled from the residence . The complex consists of a large three-story tower, which has been expanded to include a courtyard reinforced with a circular wall and a residential building. The tower has an approximately square floor plan (11.40 × 11.63 m) with a relatively thin wall (1.50 m). In the basement of the tower there is a medieval fear hole . This is protected by particularly thick walls. This dark room only contains a slit of light and the ceiling was made of artlessly curved masonry. The fear hole was occasionally used as a dungeon. Prisoners were provided with food through the opening above the vault. The fear hole later served as a storage cellar.

History of the castle

In 1120, Ried was first mentioned by name in the books of the Bavarian monastery Reichenbach , which at that time owned the manorial rights in Ried. Ried means "swampy area" and refers to the former swamping of the Inn Valley . In 1325, the castle at that time is described as owned by Hermann I von Ried ( Hermanus de Ried ) and the ancestral seat of the Lords of Ried (the basilisk contained in the Rieder coat of arms , a mythical animal consisting of a mixture of cock, snake and dragon still included in the municipal coat of arms of Ried today). Hermann von Ried held the sovereign judge's office in Prutz in 1312/13 and that in Nauders in 1323/25 . Presumably he was responsible for the establishment of the eponymous seat in Ried. This Tyrolean princely fiefdom was subsequently passed on to his son Erhart (mentioned 1326–1361) and his grandsons Matheis and Hermann II (until 1381).

In 1381 the residential tower came into the possession of the Starkenbergers, who rose to become one of the wealthiest noble families in the Upper Inn Valley. At that time, Duke Leopold III. from Austria awarded the tower ze Ryed to Hans von Starkenberg . In 1427 Ried is mentioned as the property of the Tyrolean sovereign.

In 1449 Hans Rieder von Klausen took over the tower, who gave it to Caspar Payr and his wife Anna in exchange for interest in 1462, followed by Andre Rieder in 1466. Finally, in 1471 Archduke Sigismund der Münzreich acquired what was then known as the Tower of Ried , had it converted into a stately hunting lodge in 1471/72 and then called it Sigmundsried . Because of the lavish way of life, Archduke Sigismund had to cede his property to the Archduke and later Emperor Maximilian I at the insistence of the Tyrolean estates . Since the noble estate fell under the care of the keeper of Laudegg Castle near Ladis , the keepers of Laudeck preferred to live in Sigmundsried.

Sigmundsried itself was pledged or sold during the Archduke's lifetime. The following are to be mentioned as fief or pledgee : Oswald von Schrofenstein (1474), then in 1477 Hiltprand Rasp von Laufenbach zu Berneck and again in 1481 Oswald von Schrofenstein. After the death of Oswald († 1497), his son Siegmund followed, who had to cede Sigmundsried to King Ferdinand I in 1532 without having to transfer the pledge . Siegmund von Schrofenstein had the formerly open inner courtyard closed and filled with two superimposed halls, which today form the most artistically valuable and interesting part of the palace. The groin vault fields of the ground floor hall were painted around 1535/40 with Renaissance flowers and grape decorations. In the two vaults above the central column there are coat of arms paintings (royal eagle, Austrian shield , Tyrolean eagle, coat of arms of those of Wehingen, etc.) from the same period. The vault in the upper, somewhat lower hall is adorned with a composite capital made of red marble made of acanthus leaves and dolphins . A coat of arms stone of Viktor von Montani and his wife Margareth von Schrofenstein, dated 1527, is embedded in the arcade gusset . King Ferdinand then gave Sigmundsried "his loyal valet" to the right, free Martin Pedrot (1532). He sold the castle in 1546 to the keeper of Laudegg, the knight Veit von Wehingen (he is known for his role in the Sacco di Roma ). Veit von Wehingen had a chapel built in the mansion, but it was profaned and built in around the middle of the 17th century. After his death, the castle passed in equal shares to his sons Christoph and Hans Franz. Hans Franz von Wehingen bought half of his brother's share in 1550, but died as the last male descendant of his family in 1573. As a result, Sigmundsried passed on to the husband of his daughter Helena, Christoph von Knillenberg. His sons Franz and Andreas von Knillenberg are still mentioned in 1630 as pledge holders of the Laudeck care and they are probably still in possession of the castle at that time, in which the court clerks had their apartment because Laudegg was already "öed and ybl qualified" at that time.

Martin Andreas Sterzinger zum Turm in der Breite acquired Sigmundsried in 1684. He was the keeper of Laudegg and farmer's leader and in 1703 inflicted a heavy defeat on the Bavarians as the leader of the Tyroleans at the Pontlatzer Bridge during the War of the Spanish Succession . Since his nobility improvement in 1684 he has been allowed to call himself Sterzinger von Sigmundsried and owns the old castle as a residence , his descendants until 1775. Johann Chrisostomus Wille and 1782 Joseph Aloisius and Johann Georg Wille follow as rural owners. In 1786 they sold half of the property to Johann Heiseler and Joseph Heiseler. In 1841 the palace was bought by the Hofärar and the district court of Ried, the arrests, the judge and the bailiffs were housed in it. In the 19th century the mansion was expanded to include the top floor west of the tower.

Until December 31, 1977 Sigmundsried was the seat of the District Court of Ried in Tyrol , since 1978 the entire political district of Landeck belongs to the judicial district of Landeck . After that, the castle served the Austrian Armed Forces as a magazine. The then owner was the Republic of Austria . The castle has been owned by the municipality of Ried since 1999.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 44.9 ″  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 30.1 ″  E