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DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: Schloss Tratzberg in north Tyrol
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20774#0123
Schloss Tratzberg
SCHLOSS TRATZBERG : THE TANZL ROOM
or from the mountains above, is surpassingly
beautiful.
Originally a Gothic structure, Schloss Tratzberg
has in the course of centuries changed its form, so
that now it savours more of Renaissance than of
Gothic. The latest changes were made by Ritter
Georg Ilsung, Imperial Councillor and Governor of
Suabia. It was he who formed the building into
a quadrangle, placed Renaissance portals to the
Gothic gateway arches, and decorated the walls
with frescoes after the richest Renaissance style.
Although by far the greater part has suffered from
wind and weather beyond all preservation or re-
storation, still the interior decorations in the older
part of the castle are unharmed and are still to be
seen in the panellings, ceilings, doors, and fixed
furniture.
The first Schloss Tratzberg arose towards the
end of the thirteenth century, but whether it stood
at some little distance from the present one, as an
old cistern seems to imply, or the present one was
built on the old foundations, is a moot point.
Documentary evidence, however, shows that the
old castle was destroyed by fire in 1493; that
Kaiser Maximilian (its then owner) gave the ruin
in exchange for the castle of Bernegg, in the valley
of the Upper Inn, where the ibex is still to be
found, its new owners being the brothers Veit—
Jacob and Tanzl—who rebuilt it in 1550, and so
it remained until Ritter Georg Ilsung’s time—the
sixteenth century. In the eighteenth century it
passed to the Tannenberg family, whose latest
descendant, Countess Enzenberg, bequeathed it to
her husband and sons, the Counts Enzenberg, the
present owners. When they came into possession
the castle had been stripped of many precious
treasures. The late Count went to work to restore
the Schloss and recover these lost treasures, and
since his decease his son, Count Artur Enzenberg,
like his father a man of great culture and under-
standing, has continued the work. Everything has
been carried out with careful eye and hand and
with fine feeling and thought, the aim being to
keep strictly to ancient form, so that all might be
in keeping. Wherever restoration was found
necessary it has been carefully carried out and
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SCHLOSS TRATZBERG : THE TANZL ROOM
or from the mountains above, is surpassingly
beautiful.
Originally a Gothic structure, Schloss Tratzberg
has in the course of centuries changed its form, so
that now it savours more of Renaissance than of
Gothic. The latest changes were made by Ritter
Georg Ilsung, Imperial Councillor and Governor of
Suabia. It was he who formed the building into
a quadrangle, placed Renaissance portals to the
Gothic gateway arches, and decorated the walls
with frescoes after the richest Renaissance style.
Although by far the greater part has suffered from
wind and weather beyond all preservation or re-
storation, still the interior decorations in the older
part of the castle are unharmed and are still to be
seen in the panellings, ceilings, doors, and fixed
furniture.
The first Schloss Tratzberg arose towards the
end of the thirteenth century, but whether it stood
at some little distance from the present one, as an
old cistern seems to imply, or the present one was
built on the old foundations, is a moot point.
Documentary evidence, however, shows that the
old castle was destroyed by fire in 1493; that
Kaiser Maximilian (its then owner) gave the ruin
in exchange for the castle of Bernegg, in the valley
of the Upper Inn, where the ibex is still to be
found, its new owners being the brothers Veit—
Jacob and Tanzl—who rebuilt it in 1550, and so
it remained until Ritter Georg Ilsung’s time—the
sixteenth century. In the eighteenth century it
passed to the Tannenberg family, whose latest
descendant, Countess Enzenberg, bequeathed it to
her husband and sons, the Counts Enzenberg, the
present owners. When they came into possession
the castle had been stripped of many precious
treasures. The late Count went to work to restore
the Schloss and recover these lost treasures, and
since his decease his son, Count Artur Enzenberg,
like his father a man of great culture and under-
standing, has continued the work. Everything has
been carried out with careful eye and hand and
with fine feeling and thought, the aim being to
keep strictly to ancient form, so that all might be
in keeping. Wherever restoration was found
necessary it has been carefully carried out and
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