Thurn Castle (South Tyrol)

Thurn Castle
Thurn Castle
Alternative name (s):	Ćiastel de Tor, Castel Gate
Creation time :	early 13th century
Geographical location	46 ° 40 '50.8 "  N , 11 ° 53' 35.9"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 40 '50.8 "  N , 11 ° 53' 35.9"  E

Thurn Castle ( Ladin Ćiastel de Tor ) is located on the slope above the village of St. Martin in Thurn in Val Badia in South Tyrol . The complex, which began in the early 13th century as a simple, free-standing residential tower on behalf of the Bishop of Brixen and was later expanded to include a hall, surrounding wall and two angular small round towers, now houses the Museum Ladin . The castle is considered a landmark of Ladinia and should not be confused with the Thurn castle ruins in Welsberg-Taisten .

The castle in the 1960s

The Ladin folklorist Lois Craffonara suspects that the castle tower was built at the intersection of the two main axes ( Cardo and Decumanus ) of a late Roman or early medieval settlement, which is said to have given the entire Gader Valley its name as " Quadra ". In 2005, however, these assumptions were contradicted insofar as reference was made to the Carolingian - and thus early medieval - method of field surveying in the Tyrolean Alpine region, which led to quadra-like divisions.

literature

• Martin Mittermair: Thurn Castle . In: Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. IX. Volume: Val Pusteria . Athesia Publishing House, Bozen 2003, ISBN 978-88-8266-163-2 , pp. 153-170.

Web links

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

• Homepage of the Castle of the Museum Ladin
• Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Irmtraut Heitmeier, " Quadrafluren " in Tyrol - relics from Roman times? In: VIS IMAGINVM. Festschrift for Elisabeth Walde , Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-200-00267-0