# Brunnenburg

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{{Short description|Castle in South Tyrol, Italy}}
thumb|The Brunnenburg today
thumb|''Ruins of the Brunnenburg'', engraving c. 1845

'''Brunnenburg''' ({{langx|it|Castel Fontana, Castel Brunnenburg}}) is a 13th-century [castle](/source/castle) in the province of [South Tyrol](/source/South_Tyrol), in northern [Italy](/source/Italy).  

== History ==
Schloss Brunnenburg is situated above the city of [Merano](/source/Meran), on the outskirts of the municipality of [Tirol](/source/Tirol%2C_South_Tyrol). Originally built circa 1250, the castle was completely restored and updated in the mid-20th century by [Boris de Rachewiltz](/source/Boris_de_Rachewiltz), an [Egyptologist](/source/Egyptologist), and his wife [Mary](/source/Mary_de_Rachewiltz), daughter of the poet [Ezra Pound](/source/Ezra_Pound) and [violin](/source/violin)ist [Olga Rudge](/source/Olga_Rudge); Mary lives there to this day. Surrounding the castle is the family's vineyard.

Pound stayed with his daughter and her family at the castle in 1958 after he returned from the United States. It was there that he wrote the last six of his 116 "[canto](/source/canto)s" of ''[The Cantos](/source/The_Cantos)''.

==The Ezra Pound Centre for Literature==
The Ezra Pound Centre for Literature was established at the castle by his daughter, where students come from all over the world to study the poet's works. A large guesthouse on the castle grounds is used as temporary housing for students, usually for a semester at a time.

== References ==
* "Brunnenburg". In Oswald Trapp, ed. (1980). ''Tiroler Burgenbuch''. Vol. II: ''Burggrafenamt''. Innsbruck; Vienna: Bozen; Tyrolia: Athesia. {{OCLC|906887881}}.

== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060103223953/http://www.provinz.bz.it/museenfuehrer/english/detail.asp?ORGA_ID=609 Brunnenburg Castle]
* [http://www.ezrapoundsociety.org/index.php/brunnenburg-and-merano?showall=&start=3 The Ezra Pound Center for Literature]
* [http://www.artistinitaly.wordpress.com Great Adventures at Brunnenburg Castle]

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Category:13th-century establishments in Italy
Category:Castles in South Tyrol
Category:Establishments in the Princely County of Tyrol
Category:Ezra Pound
Category:Museums in South Tyrol

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