Wiesberg Castle
Wiesberg Castle stands on a rock on the Trisanna , Tobadill municipality , where the Paznaun flows into the Stanzertal . The castle was probably built by the Chur monastery in the 13th century and is now privately owned.
history
A Hugo von Wiesberg appears in a document from Schwickers von Reichenberg in 1271. In 1292 Gebhard von Starkenberg and Johannes von Ramüss speak of iuren aen von Wisberc , possibly Wiesberg came to the Ramüss by inheritance from an Agnes von Montfort or Agnes von Wiesberg. The lords of Ramüss are churische ministerial and Nanno of Ramüss († 1350) is named as the owner of Wiesenberg, as a jack appears from Ramüss-Wiesenberg as Siegler of documents from the years 1330 and 1331 on. This year the Degn from Villanders mustand Heinrich vor Musetz compensate for damage caused during the siege of the castle. In 1350 a Voltger von Flachsberg promised the Margrave Ludwig of Brandenburg to keep the Wiesberg fortress open. At the end of the 14th century the castle belonged to the Counts of Tyrol and was given as a fief to the Rottenburger . In the feud of Henry VI. von Rottenburg with Duke Friedrich , the Rottenburger had to cede his castles to Rottenburg , but Wiesberg remained in his possession. After his death, the Bishop of Chur again raised claims to Wiesberg, but these were not recognized and Wiesberg was entered in the Tyrolean main arable as a sovereign life and subsequently administered by carers . These include Steffan Eggsteiner (1411), Moritz Hergasser (1414), Ulrich Fulhin (1425). The castle was then pledged to Hans von Stuben and his wife Elisabeth von Westernach. In 1431 Duke Friedrich repaid the pledge and the keepers came back to the castle (1434 Hermann Gessler and Christian von Liechtenberg). Other carers were Erasm Gelter (1452), Baltahsar Villinger (1465) and Paul Renntlein (1476).
In 1486, Anton Schenk von Schenkenstein and his wife Helene, daughter of Jörg von Annenberg, redeemed Wiesberg Castle from the heirs of the last pledge holder, Hans Wiser. This was followed by Hans Schenk and his wife Felicitas, daughter of Wolfgang von Breysach. The castle remained in the Schenk family until 1575, when it was given to Georg von Freysing and in 1588 to Cyriak von Haidenreich. Under the latter, Michael Weinzirl and then his son Andre Pfleger was at the castle. After the death of Cyriak Wiesberg comes to Carl von Stredele, Privy Councilor and Lord of Ober- and Niedermontan . This is followed by Christoff von Welsberg and then Lelio Pecchio. After an intermezzo in sovereign property, Wiesberg went to Johann Marx Georg von Clary and Aldringen in 1679. At that time, the managers at Wiesberg were the Fischer family from Landeck. In 1777 Karl von Clary-Aldringen sold the castle to his brother-in-law Theodor Peregrin von Wolkenstein-Rodenegg . In 1809, during the coalition wars, a battle between local riflemen and Bavarian troops took place near the castle. In 1813 the Bavarian government planned to buy the castle from the then owner Therese von Wolkenstein. This purchase was not made and Therese von Wolkenstein leased the castle to Johann Josef Pfisterer von Grins in 1815 , whose assets went bankrupt after his death († 1822). Between 1835 and 1837 a dispute broke out between Therese von Wolkenstein and the state government over repairs to agricultural buildings in Wiesberg. In 1837 the countess sold the property to the Braunau master shipper Michael Fink, who immediately transferred the facility to his wife Eleonore. In 1852 Wiesberg became the property of the Aerars , in 1859 Martin Siegele, whose family had been farming the castle since 1770, also acquired the castle. In order to be able to carry out the construction of the Trisanna Bridge undisturbed, the Austrian State Railways bought the already dilapidated area. The chapel (rebuilt in 1595 and consecrated in 1602 by the Brixen bishop Simon Feuerstein in honor of the Mother of God) was excreted and demolished. In 1887 Georg Auer, a beer brewer from Saalfelden , bought Wiesberg and began renovating work, which ended with his bankruptcy. In 1889 the castle was acquired from the auction holdings by Hermann Landfried from Heidelberg . He and his brother Fritz initiated the general renovation of the palace. The castle is still owned by the Landfried family today.
In May 1945 the Army High Command 24 of the German Wehrmacht moved into the castle and started armistice negotiations with the Americans from here. In the years after the war Emma Schmitthenner (wife of Paul Schmitthenner ) looked after the castle until 1950 and first the American and later the French occupiers.
Wiesberg Castle today
The medieval Bering from the 2nd third of the 13th century with its trapezoidal floor plan and a strong quarry stone wall (up to 2.7 m) still exists today almost completely. Opus spicatum can be seen on the western front . The keep with its almost square floor plan (7.8 to 8.4 m) flanks the entrance gate; its corners consist of smoothly hewn granite , the lower third of which comes from the old building, the rest was added during renovations in 1908. The keep received its current pyramid roof only in 1908 after it had been raised. A building from the 15th century connects it with a small palace . In the north-western corner of the up to 2.7 m thick curtain wall is a chapel originally built in 1420. A kennel with a roundabout and loopholes dates from around 1500. The boundary wall was raised to its present height during the renovation, so the old castle gate was buried and can only be seen from the outside.
literature
- Gretl Köfler: Wiesberg. In Oswald Trapp ; Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (employee), Tiroler Burgenbuch. VII. Volume - Upper Inn Valley and Ausserfern . Athesia publishing house, Bozen, 1986, pp. 141–154. ISBN 88-7014-391-0
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Wiesberg to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 47 ° 7 ′ 1 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 33.9 ″ E