Steinach am Brenner Castle
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The tower in Steinach or the Maximilian castle in Steinach am Brenner stood next to the parish church of St. Erasmus in the municipality of Steinach am Brenner in the Innsbruck-Land district in Tyrol .
history
A first princely house in Steinach is mentioned in 1288, when payments ad opus domum are mentioned. Such payments are also attested in the following years (1320, 1334), such as expenditure by the Praepositus in Insbruke Guido de Florecia. In the conflict between the Bavarians and the Habsburgs over Tyrol, the Brixen bishop Johann Ribi von Lenzburg supported the Austrian dukes; in gratitude for this he was given by Duke Albrecht III. and Duke Leopold III. Market, court and rule of Steinach were handed over in pledge, previously Rudolf von Katzenstein held these rights. The tower is explicitly mentioned in 1430 as the seat of the court. At that time, Sabina, Caspar Schnabel's wife, and her son Thomas Schaeblin handed over the Thuren and garden to Steinach next to the church to Duke Friedrich with the empty pocket .
Emperor Maximilian I had the tower expanded like a castle for his deer and chamois hunts. In 1497 one of his stays with his wife Bianca Maria Sforza in Steinach is documented. At that time, the courtyard under the tower is included and surrounded with walls. An entrance is planned between the newly created bedroom and the church ( from the Thurn to the Sagerer (= sacristy)). In 1509 the Steinach keeper Hilprant received the order from Spaur to lay new well pipes for the house. One dedicated to St. Georg dedicated chapel was in 1518 by the Brixen Bishop John Episcopus Bellinensis consecrated . In 1519 a Friedrich Franz is attested as the caretaker. In the following peasant wars , the house was obviously plundered and the stolen armor had to be replaced. In 1567 Steinach was handed over as a fief to the court chancellor Johann Wellinger, who was then raised to the nobility as baron von Schneeberg . In the great fire of Steinach in 1585, the court house was also damaged and, to a lesser extent, rebuilt. In 1714, several repair bills for the castle were received from Trautson's caretaker Josef Michael Leis. In 1775, Steinach is referred to as the seat of the Traustson patrimonial court as a castle. In 1855 a major fire devastated Steinach; then the palace and court complex had to be redesigned and rebuilt.
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Current situation
The sovereign tower, the Maximilian hunting lodge and the later court palace all stood in the area of today's court and police building north of the parish church over the Gschnitzbach, which was newly built in the neo-Romanesque style after 1855 . The field name “Schlossanger” has been preserved, with the “Fronfeste” marked on the renovation plans from 1855 south of the Gschnitzbach. Today's court or police building probably contains parts of the old facility, but due to the renovations, the appearance of the earlier castle is not immediately apparent.
literature
- Oswald Trapp ; Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (employee): Tiroler Burgenbuch. III. Band - Wipptal . Athesia Publishing House, Bolzano 1974.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 5 ′ 34.6 ″ N , 11 ° 27 ′ 58.5 ″ E