Wolkenstein-Trostburg

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Coat of arms of the Selva family from Scheibler's book of arms .
The Trostburg in the Eisack Valley

The Counts of Wolkenstein-Trostburg are a branch of the noble family Wolkenstein in Tyrol , which was founded under Friedrich III. was raised to the baron class. The Trostburg line was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1630, as counts of Wolkenstein, barons of Trostburg and Neuhauß .

history

The Wolkensteiner are an ancient noble family in Tyrol , whose roots go back to the 12th century . They are a sideline of the gentlemen from Villanders . In 1293 they acquired the castle and the court of Selva, after which the branch there was named from then on.

The founder of the two family lines was Friedrich von Wolkenstein, who married Katharina von Villanders in 1371, the heir to the daughter of Eckhart von Villanders, master of the Trostburg near Waidbruck in the South Tyrolean Eisack Valley, through which she came to the Wolkensteiner. The Trostburg line comes from their eldest son Michael von Wolkenstein († 1443), while his younger brother, the late medieval poet composer Oswald von Wolkenstein (around 1377–1445) founded the Wolkenstein-Rodenegg line, which in 1491 acquired the Rodenegg Castle and owned it still owns today.

The dynasty was one of the first of the old Tyrolean nobility to achieve under Friedrich III. the elevation to the baron class . It later acquired properties in Moravia and Bohemia . On 24 October 1630, the consolation Burger line when it became Counts of Wolkenstein, Barons to Trostburg and Neuhauß in the imperial counts charged.

Theobald von Wolkenstein-Trostburg was an elector from 1444–1446, i.e. elected but not confirmed bishop of Trento .

From 1619 to 1828, Summersberg Castle was owned by the Counts of Wolkenstein. In the 17th century, the Trostburg line took over Castel Ivano from the Wolkenstein-Rodenegg , which they had owned since the 15th century, but sold it to their castle administrator at the beginning of the 20th century. In the second half of the 20th century, the Trostburg, which is now run as a museum by the South Tyrolean Castle Institute , was also sold .

Karl Friedrich Otto Graf von Wolkenstein-Trostburg inherited Brunnersdorf Castle in Bohemia in 1840 . The Bohemian Wildstein Castle was acquired by Count Engelhard von Wolkenstein-Trostburg in 1884, whose descendants sat on Wildstein until they were expropriated in 1945.

Personalities (selection)

(see also Stammliste der Wolkenstein )

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolkenstein (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Adelheid von Zallinger: The Trostburg above Waidbruck in the Eisack Valley (op. Cit.). Bolzano 2001.
  2. ↑ Severino Vareschi: Art. Theobald von Wolkenstein-Trostburg († 1487 at the earliest) . In: Clemens Brodkorb, Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon . Berlin 2001, p. 788.