Schlossberg Castle (Seefeld in Tirol)
| Schlossberg Castle | |
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| Burg Schlossberg | |
| Seefeld in Tirol | |
Schlossberg Castle around 1700
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 Schlossberg Castle
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| Coordinates | 47°20′36″N 11°12′09″E / 47.343411°N 11.202374°ECoordinates: 47°20′36″N 11°12′09″E / 47.343411°N 11.202374°E |
| Type | hill castle |
| Code | AT-7 |
| Site information | |
| Condition | burgstall (no above-ground ruins) |
| Site history | |
| Built | before 1248 |
| Garrison information | |
| Occupants | counts |
Schlossberg Castle (German: Burg Schlossberg) is a ruined toll castle in the municipality of Seefeld in Tirol in the district of Innsbruck Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
After the death of the last member of the House of Andechs, Otto II and his successor, Count Albert III of Tyrol who died without male issue there was a division of inheritance in 1263 between Count Meinhard I of Gorizia and Count Gebhard VI Hirschberg; the areas north of the Inn went to the latter, including castrum Slozperch. Since this castle was designated as being owned by the Andechs family, it is assumed that it was built by them in the period before 1248. Certainly by 1281 (and therefore before the official transition of Hirschberg estates to Count Meinhard II, the son of Meinhard I, Gorizian-Tyrolean ministeriales appear here. Albert and Rüdiger, sons of the Eberlins of Schlossberg and grandsons of Conrad of Schlossberg are entrusted here with the hereditary castle-guard (Burghut) of the castle. This family were lords of Eben near Inzing. The family died out with Rüdiger of Eben, but also called themselves von Schlossberg even after losing the responsibility of the castle-guard. Towards the end of the 13th century the castle was further expanded, as is evidenced by various bills. In 1284 it was transferred from the counts of Eschenlohe to the counts of Tyrol and formed its border fortification with the County of Werdenfels.
The ecclesiastical divisions also followed this border: Scharnitz belonged to the Bishopric of Freising, Seefeld and Oberleutasch to the Bishopric of Brixen. Nevertheless the County of Werdenfels,maintained territorial claims up to the outskirts of Seefeld, citing the bishopric's borders of 1060 and later, unilateral, boundary records. The aim of the County of Tyrol was, by contrast, to push the state border up to the strategically important Scharnitz Pass.
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