Burg Bruck

Bruck Castle is located in the southern Tyrol in the urban area of the district capital Lienz. It is built on a hill that clings to the mountain of Lienz Hochstein. The castle was the residence of the Counts of Gorizia from about 1278 to the year 1500. It has a chapel with frescoes by Simon von Taisten. Since 1943 it serves as a museum of Lienz.

History

The oldest finds, including two hatchets made ​​of copper or bronze, which refer to the settlement around the Castle, are about 3000 years old. The Bruck Castle was built in the years 1252-1277 by the Counts of Gorizia, and served them to the year 1500 as a residence. When in the same year, the last Count Leonhard of Gorizia Gorizia died childless, fell to his entire possessions, including Schloss Bruck, King Maximilian I, who later became Emperor, who united it with the county of Tyrol. After a brief period of ownership by Virgil of digging Maximilian sold on August 10, 1501 Baron Michael von Wolkenstein the domain of Lienz including the castle for 22,000 guilders to " eternal return " solution. The Barons remained until about 1608 in the castle. The brothers Sigmund and Christoph von Wolkenstein Rodenegg built in the years 1606-1608 due to the cold in the castle Liebburg the main square of the town of Lienz as a residential palace. From 1796 to the occupation of the city by the troops of the French Republic under General Joubert in 1797 Bruck Castle was used as a barracks. In the following years, it was privately owned and used as an inn, brewery and forwarding. On 13 June 1943, the Museum of the East Tyrol district was opened in Bruck Castle.

Museum

Today the castle is a museum of the city of Lienz and hosts many of the images coming from Lienz painter Albin Egger -Lienz. There are always children's workshops and exhibitions (such as the National Exhibition in 2000, which included East Tyrol, Bressanone, Trentino ) is performed. The surroundings of the castle with the picturesque grove around a small pond near the gate is a popular area for walking and starting point of many hiking trails. The castle is open from mid-May to late October. In 2007, the Tyrolean Museum Prize the museum.

Exhibitions

• 2012 three parallel exhibitions with the Museum Kitzbühel and the Werner Berg Museum: Egger- Lienz | forest | the mountain. About the country.
• 2013 exhibition Hermann Pedit work 1950-2013