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Ferklehen's hide, view from the northeast

The Ferklehen mansion , also known as Ferklehen Castle , is a mansion in the Austrian state of Tyrol on the southern edge of the Inn Valley , around ten kilometers west of Innsbruck city ​​center . The baroque complex belongs to the municipality of Ranggen , but is only a few meters away from the western outskirts of Unterperfuss . It is therefore also called Unterperfer Schlössl . Numerous legends and sagas are associated with it, for example about a hidden treasure and ghostly apparitions such as a white woman and red-clad males.

The residence cannot be visited, but it can be seen from the street. He is since October 1979 under monument protection ( list entry ).

description

Origin of name

The name Ferklehen means " Lehen des Fergen", that is, the ferryman , because the feudal owners of the estate operated the ferry across the Inn for centuries and were allowed to collect tolls for it. After the Inn Bridge near Zirl was built in 1482 and the ferry became superfluous, the Fergen received the right to levy a bridge toll as a replacement. In return, they were responsible for maintenance.

architecture

The detached residence has a baroque appearance, but is still late Gothic in essence . It is surrounded by a high wall with the large main portal on the east side . In addition, the gravestone of the former owner Andreas Dum from the old Innsbruck cemetery has been set into the wall since 1935. It shows the weathered family coat of arms and the year 1559.

Center of the property is a rectangular, three-story mansion , where shallow hipped roof is covered with wooden shingles. In the middle of the eastern front side there is a half-set, octagonal tower, which tapers in steps towards the top. It is closed off by an onion dome, which is crowned by a lantern and a weather vane . The inside of the tower can be illuminated through narrow cross slits and ox eyes . Some of the windows in the manor house still have their original shutters from the Gothic period.

At the southwest corner of the property, outside the wall, is the baroque chapel belonging to the residence . Its two floors rise on a square floor plan and are closed off by a pyramid roof. The southeast facade has a large painting in the form of a sundial . The interior of the ground floor is decorated with light stucco work and spanned by a plastered flat ceiling with a ceiling fresco with a guardian angel. The painting dates from the second half of the 18th century. The upper floor of the chapel has a barrel vault with a picture of Maria-Hilf from the end of the 18th century.

Other buildings that belong to the residence are a partially demolished defense tower on the southeast corner and - north of the manor house - a farm building with an L-shaped floor plan and the rest of a round tower . The roofing was so dilapidated in 2010/2011 that a complete renovation with red clay tiles was necessary.

history

The property was first mentioned in a document in 1355, when the Innsbruck citizen Conrad de Mor sold the estate "Ob Pervens called Vercklehen" to Autho von Matrei. In 1545 it was owned by the farmer Lindenthaler, who sold it to Andreas Dum that year. The new owner began in the same year with a late Gothic building, for which he, the 1548 Freiung the noble received seat. This was looted in 1552 by the troops of the Protestant Elector Moritz von Sachsen .

In 1573 the Tyrolean sovereign Ferdinand II bought the residence and gave it to his wife Philippine Welser . She used it for hunting events, because Ferklehen's location near the forest rich in game was ideal for using the property as a hunting seat. After a few years, Philippine handed it over to the royal court chamber , with the result that the residence became the property of the state of Tyrol. Ferdinand's successors also used it as a hunting lodge before Archduke Ferdinand Karl gave it to his forest master Voglmayr in 1649.

Drawing of the residence from 1853 by Welf von Isser-Gaudententhurn

From 1699 Ferklehen belonged to the Barons von Reinhart. When Franz Virgil von Reinhart was the owner, the property - like the surrounding villages - was burned down by Bavarian troops during the Bavarian hype in the course of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1703. The pillage was a retaliation for the murder of Ferdinand Graf Arco , the adjutant and friend of the Bavarian Elector Maximilian Emmanuel . Arco had been shot by the imperial district forester Anton Lechleitner because Lechneitner had mistakenly mistaken him for the elector. Franz Virgil had the mansion and chapel reduced in size after the end of the war and rebuilt in the Baroque style and ran a model farm there.

The von Reinhart family remained the owners until 1853, when the property passed to the Vintler family , from whom it passed by inheritance to the current owners, the von Schreckenthal family , in 1920. They had the facility extensively restored in 1978 .

literature

  • Georg Clam Martinic : Austrian Castle Lexicon. Palaces, castles and ruins. A & M, Salzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-902397-50-8 , pp. 390-391.
  • Paul von Schreckenthal: Castle Ferklehen in legend and tale. In: Tiroler Heimatblätter. Vol. 49, No. 4/6, 1964, ISSN  0040-8115 , pp. 22-26.
  • Erwin Stockhammer: The residences in Innsbruck and its immediate surroundings from the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods (= Schlern writings. Volume 202). Wagner, Innsbruck 1961, p. 110 ff.
  • Josef Weingartner, Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner: The castles of Tyrol. A guide to castles through North, East and South Tyrol. 3. Edition. Athesia, Bozen 1981, ISBN 88-7014-247-7 , p. 117.
  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria - Tyrol . Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0488-0 , pp. 626-627.

Web links

Commons : Ansitz Ferklehen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul von Schreckenthal: Castle Ferklehen in legend and story. 1964, pp. 22-26.
  2. ↑ a b Kronbichler, K. Wiesauer: Ansitz Ferklehen. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Entry on the Ferklehen residence in Burgen-Austria , accessed on November 12, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Ferklehen residence. In: Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Department of Culture (Ed.): Kulturberichte aus Tirol 2012. Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Department of Culture, Innsbruck 2012, p. 108 ( PDF ; 11.9 MB).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Josef Weingartner, Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner: The castles of Tyrol. A guide to castles through North, East and South Tyrol. 1981, p. 117.
  6. ^ Markus von Holzknecht: Question stone. In: Verein's Echo. Association newspaper of the regional association Saale-Ilm-Finne-Elster-Burgenland eV No. 9/10, February / May 2015, p. 7 ( PDF ; 4 MB).
  7. ↑ Georg Clam Martinic: Austrian Burgenlexikon. 2007, p. 390.

Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 30.9 ″  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 12 ″  E