Rodenegg Castle

On our South Tyrol castle tour, we also discovered this very beautiful castle. In one room of the castle, beautiful wall paintings from the early 13th century were discovered in the 1970s. They are really worth seeing. There are also very beautiful paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries in the castle chapel! The so-called armory only lured us a tired smile. Almost all weapons are imitation or from the 19th century. The tours are in German, very friendly and informative. Built in 1140 by the lords of Rodank, the South Tyrolean castle passed to the barons and later counts of Wolkenstein-Rodenegg in the 16th century, who expanded it into one of the most magnificent residences in the country. The founder of the Wolkenstein-Rodenegg line was Oswald von Wolkenstein; his descendants still own the castle today. The oldest profane wall painting in the German-speaking world Today the castle is in very good condition; a part is even still inhabited. The main attraction is the cycle of frescoes for the Iwein epic by Hartmann von Aue, which was discovered in 1972 and subsequently uncovered, and is considered the oldest secular wall painting in the German-speaking world (created between 1200 and 1230). Also worth seeing are the St. Michael castle chapel, the armory, the palace garden and the so-called Lauterfresserloch, a narrow dungeon in which Matthias Perger, the legendary Lauterfresser (because of his preference for "louder" = soups), was once imprisoned. In 1645 a spectacular trial was conducted against him at Rodenegg Castle, in which he was sentenced to death at the stake for witchcraft.

Source: https://www.suedtirolerland.it/de/highlights/burgen-schloesser/schloss-rodenegg

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