Compil

The Ansitz Compil stands in Bolzano, a noble residence first recorded in the thirteenth century under the name Winklerhof. It also answers to the names Compill and Klebelsberg. Its story runs through noble families, a nineteenth-century makeover and one resident economist.

The Reifer von Compil held the house in the fourteenth century, and the Brandis family followed from the late fifteenth until seventeen sixty-one. The estate keeps its own Siebenschläfer Chapel, consecrated in fourteen fifty-seven. On its altar a late baroque altarpiece by Anton Cuseth depicts the seven sleepers in their cave. Cuseth completed it toward the end of the eighteenth century. Around eighteen seventy a remodeling in the English neo-Gothic style gave the building the face it still shows.

The estate changed hands several times during the nineteenth century. In eighteen ninety-one the von Pretz family divided the property among its seven daughters. That division left the house with the family whose name it still bears. The German economist Hermann Roesler made his home here as well, remaining until his death in eighteen ninety-three.