Wehrburg (Prissian)

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Fortified castle
Fortified castle

Fortified castle

Alternative name (s): Werberg
Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: two residential towers and a Pallas
Standing position : Ministerial Castle
Place: Prissian
Geographical location 46 ° 32 '56.3 "  N , 11 ° 11' 8.9"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '56.3 "  N , 11 ° 11' 8.9"  E
Wehrburg (South Tyrol)
Fortified castle

The Wehrburg (also Werberg ) - built as a fortified castle in the 13th century - is a castle in Prissian in the South Tyrolean municipality of Tesimo .

investment

The hilltop castle complex consists of two residential towers , the east tower (with a 9 × 9 m floor plan) and the north-west tower (about 11 × 11 m), both about 18 m high and covered with pyramid roofs, plus a chapel and the palace , which are located group around the inner courtyard. The towers were built in the 13th century, the top two tower floors were probably added in the 16th century. The original castle chapel on the first floor of the east tower contains a round arched window niche, which is painted in the Italian style of the early 15th century with a Man of Sorrows, a Mother of God with child, figures of saints and coats of arms.

The courtyard is bordered to the south by a three-storey, elongated and somewhat bent palace building, which may have arisen from a farm building mentioned in 1420. In one of the rooms in the basement there is a mural from the 15th century, which shows Andrian's coat of arms. The castle chapel, consecrated in 1474, is a free-standing structure under the patronage of St. Erasmus . The Pietà made of gray sandstone (around 1420) on the altar was previously located in an arched niche installed around 1900 above a neo-Romanesque window in the east tower.

history

The fortified castle, like the Mayenburg castle in Völlan , was built by the Counts of Eppan on the Ulten line, as the administrative seat and to monitor the traffic connection from the Adige Valley over the Gampen Pass to the Non Valley , the route of which leads from Nals via Prissian. The lords of Nordheim and Sarnthein were among the ministerials of the Counts of Eppan-Ulten, some of whose families also named themselves after their castles from Holz , von Zobel and von Tisens . The brothers Ulrich and Otto von Tisens and Werberg are mentioned in 1261/63 . After the Eppan-Ulten became extinct in 1248, the Nordheimers and their castles probably fell to the bishopric of Trient , as a result of which they were involved in armed conflicts with Count Meinhard II of Görz-Tirol, on whose side they soon sided.

The fortified castle

The daughter of Heinrich von Werberch († 1323), Adelheid, married Eghard Murenteiner von Andrian in 1332 and brought him shares in the fortified castle. In 1351/55 the married couple Reinbrecht von Wehrberg and Katharina von Greifenstein are attested with wine ownership in Gries near Bozen . Subsequently, there were inheritance disputes with other Werbergers, but in 1411 Jakob Murendeiner was invested by Andrian with the entire fief of the fortified castle and from then on called himself von Andrian-Werburg . Around 1520 Hans Veit von Andrian-Werburg donated two glass windows adorned with coats of arms for the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Tesimo . The fortified castle owned several manors and residences, such as the Wolfsthurn Castle in Andrian , the Schenkengut in Terlan and in Prissian the Mayrhof am Thurn (Saltenbüchl), the Kemathof and the Fahlburg . After the death of Erasmus von Andrian-Werburg in 1587, this property was divided. In 1798 the Wehrburg line of the family with Joseph Bernardin went out, whereupon the feudal estate was confiscated from the princely chamber. The Styrian line of the barons of Andrian-Werburg could not prevail with their demand for the transfer of feudal rights.

The castle, which had been dilapidated in the 18th century, came into rural possession and fell into disrepair. In 1898, the envoy and chamberlain Adalbert Freiherr Eperjesy von Szászváros and Tóti, who had the towers roofed over, made the rooms of the palace habitable again and equipped them with 6 old tiled stoves, while his wife covered the medieval wall paintings with varnish and painted over them with oil paints. Newly applied paintings in the rooms were replaced from 1925. The baron's extensive collection of antiques was dispersed after his death in 1916. After various users, the British Colonel Arthur Rudston Brown acquired the castle in 1927 and in 1956 Hermann Holzner, the owner of the Mohrenwirt inn in Prissian, who converted it into a castle hotel that his descendants still operate today.

literature

  • Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume II: Burgrave Office . Athesia Publishing House, Bozen 1980, pp. 293-299.

Web links

Commons : Wehrburg (Prissian)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume 2, Bozen 1980, p. 289.
  2. ↑ Elfriede Zöggeler-Gabrieli: The fortified castle near Prissian. In: ARX. (Journal for) castles and palaces in Bavaria, Austria and South Tyrol, published by the South Tyrolean Castle Institute , Bozen, 38th year, 2016, issue 1, pp. 3–12.
  3. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 326 ff., No. 652 and 666 .
  4. ↑ Olga Majeau: Crumbs for the blue bird. Bettina von Arnim and her descendants: a European family story. btb 2016, chap. 4th