Tratzberg Castle

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Tratzberg Castle from a bird's eye view (2017)
Tratzberg

Tratzberg Castle , owned by Ulrich Goëss-Enzenberg and his wife Katrin Goëss-Enzenberg, is located between Jenbach and Schwaz in the Inn Valley / Tyrol in the municipality of Stans on a rocky ridge approx. 100 m above the valley floor on the north side of the valley . In its current form, it was mainly built by the brothers Veit-Jakob and Simon Tänzl around 1500 and represents an excellent example of a Renaissance castle complex in the Alpine region.

history

A castle called Trazperch was already mentioned at this point in 1296 ; it was destroyed by fire in 1490/91. The later Emperor Maximilian I left the ruins to the brothers Veit-Jakob and Simon Tänzl in exchange for Berneck Castle in Kaunertal in 1499, with the requirement of rebuilding. A three-story four-wing complex with an inner courtyard and stair tower, portals and arcades, columns, window sills and chimneys in Hagau marble was built in an 8-year construction period from 1500 . The north wing was not completed.

In 1553 the heirs of the Tänzl brothers sold the castle, which has since seen numerous changes of ownership and related changes over the course of its history.

Inner courtyard with facade painting

The closure of the vacant lots in the north and the striking facade painting in the inner courtyard go back to the Augsburg knight Georg Ilsung and his family in the second half of the 16th century. From then on, his children named themselves after Tratzberg Castle.

By inheritance, the castle came to the Fugger family from Augsburg in 1589 , which benefited greatly from the nearby mining of copper and silver in Schwaz. Georg Ilsung's daughter Anna had Jakob III. Fugger married. The Fuggerstube and Fugger Chamber are still reminiscent of the famous patrician family.

The Stauber-Imhof families, von der Halden and Josef Ignaz imperial barons from Tannenberg followed in the 17th and 18th centuries. However, the castle has not been inhabited since the middle of the 18th century. In 1809, during the coalition wars, Bavarian soldiers looted the armory and demolished part of the furniture.

When the Enzenberg family , who still own the castle today, acquired it through succession in 1847, extensive restoration work was necessary to make it habitable again. Ulrich Goëss-Enzenberg and his wife Katrin Goëss-Enzenberg have lived here since 1991; the last restoration work 1991–1994 and the tourist development go back to this Enzenberg generation.

Furnishing

In the halls open to the public, valuable original furniture from the time of the Tänzl brothers at the transition from Gothic to Renaissance as well as furnishings from the Fugger period have been preserved.

The so-called Habsburg Hall is a treasure , on the four walls of which the Tänzl brothers painted a family tree of the family across the room as a tribute to their client, the House of Habsburg . There are of course the German king and later Emperor Maximilian I with his two wives ( Maria of Burgundy and Bianca Maria Sforza ), King Rudolf I , Duke Rudolf IV and the two Tyrolean princes, Duke Friedrich IV. With the empty pocket and Archduke Sigmund the Coin Rich.

Significant pieces among the historical furniture and pieces of equipment in the Fuggerstube and Fugger Chamber are:

  • a late-Gothic South Tyrolean cupboard (around 1460), an exceptional example in the Alpine region, with a relief carving of vine leaves; he comes from the Teutonic Order Castle Reifenstein ,
  • a rare Gothic vanity unit, a Gothic cheek table with a scissor chair , a Gothic post bed ,
  • two inclined tables with inlays around 1520 on winding column legs,
  • a large chest with paneling doors ; Above this chest a late Gothic chandelier in the form of a mermaid
  • a painting by Hans Schäufelein (1509), "Tournament in the Innsbruck Hofburg"
  • a green glazed tiled stove with reliefs and a crucifixion group; Another such tiled stove with representations of the 5 senses from the Nuremberg workshop around Georg Fest (around 1620) is located in the so-called "Queen's Room" (named after Anna of Böhmen ).

The following rooms are also accessible:

  • A "women's parlor" with typical household furniture from the 17th century (Renaissance box bed, cradle, high chair, ladies' washbasin, spinning wheel, laundry press); three globes from the 18th century stand on a two-story Renaissance facade cabinet.
  • The hunting room from the Enzenberg period from the 19th century, used as a dining room, with carved animal sculptures of red deer, fox and bears; The client, Count Franz Enzenberg III, sees himself in the center of this room. himself, who once went hunting with Archduke Franz Joseph in the revolutionary year of 1848 (group of sculptures).
  • The chapel with its late Gothic reticulated vault was built by the Tänzl brothers; some sculptures and picture panels date from this time, the high altar, however, from 1750. It shows the beheading of Catherine of Alexandria , patron saint of Tratzberg Castle.
  • The armory with armor and weapons from the 15th and 16th centuries hardly shows any of the original holdings as it has been looted several times. Today's holdings are largely a collection of Count Franz Enzenberg III.

Tourism / access

Parts of the palace - the inner courtyard and the rooms on the 1st floor - can be viewed on guided tours from the end of March to the beginning of November.

The tourist infrastructure includes a shuttle transfer from the parking lots on the river, souvenir shop, gastronomy and special children's adventure programs. The ascent on foot takes about a quarter of an hour.

Surroundings

The wooded rock ridge lies on the slopes of the Karwendel .

Hiking trails lead in two hours to St. Georgenberg-Fiecht Abbey and Wolfsklamm . Part of the area belongs to the protected Karwendel Alpine Park .

literature

  • Elisabeth Goëss-Enzenberg: Tratzberg Castle (= Small Art Guide. No. 908). 5th, revised edition. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-4641-3 .
  • Sighard Graf Enzenberg: Tratzberg Castle. A contribution to the cultural history of Tyrol (= Schlern-Schriften 183, ZDB -ID 503740-2 ), Wagner, Innsbruck 1958.

Web links

Commons : Tratzberg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '5 "  N , 11 ° 44' 35"  E