The History of Tyrol
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A chronology of events in Dorf Tirol, the region of Tyrol and Tyrol Castle.
For this regional history we have paid special attention to the area around Dorf Tirol.
2300 BC Gratsch stone tomb
2200 – 1900 BC Algund standing stones
1300 – 850 BC Hill fort on the Mutkopf, cup and ring-marked stones
15 BC Drusus and Tiberius, step-sons of Augustus conquer the Alpine region and found the province of Raetia.
470 AD St. Valentine is buried on the Zenoburg.
476 End of the Western Roman empire. Dorf Tirol under Frankish rule
550 - 600 Expansion of the Bavarii and peaceful takeover of land.
725 St. Corbinian buried on the Zenoburg.
1027 Bishop of Trento receives the county of Vinschgau from in fief King Konrad II.
1096 Albert I of Vinschgau receives the county of Vinschgau in fief from Bishop Altmann of Trento and builds Tyrol Castle.
1141 The Counts of Vinschgau call themselves “Counts of Tyrol” for the first time.
1149 First documentary mention of Dorf Tirol
1164 First documentary mention of the Church of St. John the Baptist.
1140 - 1160 Construction of Tyrol Castle recommences under Albert II (d. 1165) and Berthold I (d. 1180).
1241 - 1253 Construction of Brunnenburg Castle.
1248 Founding year of the region of Tyrol, which is no longer the “Land in the Mountains” but “Dominium Comitis Tyrolis”.
1253 Albert III, the last count of Tyrol, dies and the land passes to Meinhard III of Goerz-Tyrol = Meinhard I of Tyrol.
1269 Bishop Bruno of Bressanone enfeoffs Meinhard II of Tyrol with the Brunnenburg.
1271 Division of Goerz and Tyrol. Meinhard II (marr. Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, widow of King Konrad IV and mother of King Konradin) receives Tyrol, Count Albert receives Goerz with Lienz and the Puster Valley.
1282 Meinhard II enfeoffs Konrad Milser with Patzlei(d), later Thurnstein Castle.
1286 King Rudolf I of Habsburg enfeoffs Meinhard II with Carinthia.
1287 Meinhard II receives the Patronage of St. Peter
1288 Count Meinhard acquires Zenoburg and develops it into his Residence.
1290 Reconstruction of St. Peter
1306 Heinrich of Tyrol becomes King of Bohemia.
1330 Margarethe Maultasch of Tyrol marries Johann Heinrich of Luxembourg (Bohemia).
1332 St. Rupert’s Church mentioned in records.
1334 King Heinrich gives the Brunnenburg to the widow and children of Wilhelm von Brunnenburg in fief.
1342 Expulsion of Johann Heinrich von Luxembourg and marriage of Margarethe Maultasch to Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg (Bavaria). “Great Freedom Charter”.
1347 Tyrol Castle is unsuccessfully besieged by King Karl of Bohemia, who, however, destroys Zenoburg.
1348 The Parish of Tyrol is taken under its patronage by the diocese of Trento (previously the Chur diocese).
1360 Relocation of the regional princes’ residence from Dorf Tirol to Meran.
1363 The son of Margarethe Maultasch, Meinhard III, dies and Tyrol passes to Rudolf IV of Habsburg.
1370 Extension of the Parish Church of Dorf Tirol.
1379 Tyrol passes to Leopold III.
1386 Battle with severe Habsburg losses against the Swiss at Sempach with the participation of many Tyroleans. Leopold III killed.
1406 Tyrol becomes an independent Habsburg principality.
1406 - 1439 Friedrich IV “with the empty pockets”. Landständische* constitution.
*The “Landstände” were assemblies representing the various strata of society in medieval provincial politics.
1415 - 1416 Friedrich IV sides with the antipope John XXIII at the Council of Constance and is ostracised.
1420 Relocation of the regional capital from Meran to Innsbruck.
1472 St. Rupert’s Church is rededicated.
1477 Hans von Kripp acquires the Brunnenburg.
1477 Relocation of the Meran Mint to Hall under “Sigmund the Coin Rich”.
1478 First mention of the name “Thurnstein Castle”.
1499 Heavy defeat of the Tyroleans against the Swiss in Calwenwald (near Glurns).
1520 Mention of the demolition of the Koestengraben.
1525 Peasant uprising inspired by the Reformation. Abbey on Kornplatz in Meran besieged and captured by peasants from Dorf Tirol and Algund.
Dorf Tirol rectory stormed on 15.05.
1564 Tyrol and Vorarlberg becomes an independent county again.
1665 Kaiser Leopold I takes over the governance of Tyrol.
1665 Tyrol-Meran clergy relocates to Meran.
1682 Construction of the “Knappenloch” tunnel as a connection to Tyrol Castle.
