Wolfsthurn Castle

Wolfsthurn Castle

Wolfsthurn Castle

The Wolfsthurn lock (Italian: Castel Wolfsthurn or Castel Mareta ) is a baroque castle on a hilltop above Mareit, a fraction of the community Ratschings in South Tyrol . It was planned by Daniel Christoph Dietrich , the person responsible for the construction is unknown. It should not be confused with Wolfsthurn Castle in Andrian .

architecture

The eastern main wing of the castle is lightly plastered and has a central projection with a triangular gable. Its three storeys are closed off by curved roofs. Opposite the main wing is a low, single-storey cavalier wing with a gate . Together with the connecting walls between the two building wings, the buildings frame a spacious inner courtyard with a fountain in the middle .

history

The beginnings of the plant are in the dark. Shortly after 1200 there was a defense tower , which the Counts of Tyrol took into their possession in 1242. Then they gave him a fiefdom with the small lordship around Rudolfus Lupus ( Rudolf the Wolf ) . The Ministeriale , who died out at the end of the 15th century, gave the tower its name. In 1574 the castle at that time came into the possession of the Grebmer family . About 200 years later it passed to the Sternbach family , who still own it today. Between 1727 and 1741 Franz Andreas built by Sternbach it the only Baroque castle in South Tyrol to after seeing the castle, with the exception of the keep had to resign.

Castle Museum

The South Tyrolean State Museum for Hunting and Fishing has been housed on the first floor of the castle since 1996 . The rooms on the second floor are dedicated to the castle and its history. The state rooms have been preserved in their original state. Your furniture, paintings and wallpaper are part of the baroque inventory of the palace and thus give a good impression of the life of the nobility in the 18th and 19th centuries. Among other things, artistic stucco work in pastel tones, elaborately painted fabric wallpapers with hunting motifs and a large crystal chandelier can be viewed .

literature

• Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner: Wolfsthurn . In: Oswald Trapp (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. III. Band: Wipptal . Verlagsanstalt Athesia, Bozen 1982, pp. 189–233.
• Walter Pippke, Ida Leinberger: South Tyrol. Landscape and art of a mountain region under the influence of northern and southern European traditions . DuMont-Reiseverlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7701-6087-8 , pp. 59–61.

Web links

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

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inga Hosp , Haidi Romen: South Tyrol. Travel with insider tips . Mairs Geographischer Verlag, Ostfildern 2002, ISBN 3-8297-0178-0 , p. 55.
2. ↑ Wolfsthurn Castle - The castle with 365 windows. (No longer available online.) Website of the South Tyrolean State Museum for Hunting and Fishing, archived from the original on September 19, 2010 ; accessed on March 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 46 ° 53 ′ 35.4 "  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 56.6"  E