Summersberg Castle

Summersberg Castle
Summersberg Castle
Creation time :	1330
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Hall and round tower, defensive wall preserved in parts
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Gufidaun
Geographical location	46 ° 38 '55.2 "  N , 11 ° 36' 12.3"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 38 '55.2 "  N , 11 ° 36' 12.3"  E

The fort-like Summersberg Castle is located in Gufidaun in South Tyrol . It was built by Georg von Villanders in 1329 and was the seat of the court in Gufidaun until 1828 .

Witch tower

The lock

The oldest still existing parts of the palace and the round "Witches' Tower" from the 14th century. Extensions and additions date from the 15th to 18th centuries. From 1619 to 1828 Summersberg was owned by the Counts of Wolkenstein .

1880 bought Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle already somewhat dilapidated castle and let it get ready again. Its descendants live there to this day (2014); it is not open to the public. Zingerle named a small hall in the castle after the sculptor Heinrich Natter and showed his figure of the vengeance-seeking Brunhildis and in large photographs his sculptures Wotan , Siegfried and Joseph Haydn . In addition, the hall was also the location of a Madonna from the 12th century carved out of quartz stone.

The Palas was established in 1971 with an Eternit roof covered. In 1990 the Hexenturm and the Lange Stiege were covered with larch clapboards . The outer walls were renovated between 1991 and 1994. The so-called Wolkenstein tract was also renovated and modernized in 2002.

The north tower endangered by rock breaks

The castle rock

The rock below the castle is a metamorphic over impressed gabbro , which is very inhomogeneous. Rock falls have often occurred on the north side, with a rock fall in the 1950s an approximately 20 meter long section of the castle wall also fell into the valley of the Villnößbach. Security measures should protect the north side of the rock and especially the north tower of the castle. Between 2009 and 2011, the rock face was secured with 332 anchor rods by the torrent and avalanche control department of South Tyrol.

Personalities associated with the castle

• Jörg Blaurock (1490–1529), co-founder of the Anabaptist movement , was imprisoned in one of the castle towers from August 19, 1529 until his execution on September 6, 1529.

literature

• Georg Zingerle: Private castle ownership: still relevant today . In: Südtiroler Burgeninstitut (Ed.): Burgen Perspektiven. 50 years of the South Tyrolean Castle Institute, 1961–2013. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7030-0838-2 , pp. 555-559.
• Berthold Zingerle-Summersberg: Summersberg . In: Oswald Trapp (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. IV. Volume: Eisacktal . Verlagsanstalt Athesia, Bozen 1977, pp. 70-101.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Summersberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ph. A – n .:  Gufidaun .. In:  Dillinger's illustrated Reise-Zeitung , No. 9 5th year, March 20, 1894, p. 01 (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ Peter Ellecosta: Engineering geological survey of the interface on the castle rock of Summersberg Castle in Gufidaun / South Tyrol and determination of rock mechanical parameters ; Retrieved November 22, 2011.