Geiersberg Castle
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 Geiersberg Castle |
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| Creation time : | around 1130 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | essential parts received | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone masonry | |
| Place: | Friesach | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 57 '22.8 " N , 14 ° 23' 56.6" E | |
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The castle Geiersberg is a rock castle in Friesach in Carinthia . It stands on a steep cliff at the north end of town. The cliff slopes steeply on three sides, only in the west does a flat saddle lead to the Krewenze, from there an almost flat path leads to the castle. The facility is privately owned and cannot be entered.
history
The original construction of the complex is estimated to have been in the year 1130, the time of Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg . The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1271. The keep was part of the suburban fortifications. Since the 13th century, the castle was connected to the vice cathedral office. After a fire, Johann Andrä Auer received the castle as a fief from Salzburg Archbishop Johann Ernst in 1690 and had it repaired. Several changes of ownership followed and the castle had been uninhabitable since 1750. In 1912 the castle was extensively restored in the historicism style and the west wing was rebuilt. Further restoration work and structural changes have also taken place in recent times.
Building
On the cliff top, the rectangular stands main castle from the first half of the 13th century with a mighty keep . The residential building from the early 20th century adjoins the north side. From the early 13th century palace on the north-east flank, only low wall sections have survived. The first complex was surrounded in the north, west and south by a second curtain wall from the second half of the 13th century, with an originally open shell tower placed over a corner in the west and a tower in the south corner that was converted into a chapel in the early 14th century .
Residential wing
The residential wing was built between 1911 and 1912 in a historicizing style and was rebuilt in 1935 by Helmar Temajer. The building made of unplastered quarry stone masonry has a historicising walkway with arched hatches under the roof.
tower
In the former southern corner of the stronghold stands the mighty six-storey keep with a square floor plan. The regular quarry stone masonry was built in the first half of the 13th century. The building has historicizing bi-directional windows on the upper floors on the east and south fronts , only the original light slits with the reveal edges framed by bright cuboids date from the first half of the 13th century. On the fifth floor the tower has a Romanesque chimney system with a fully preserved chimney mantle from the 13th century resting on profiled wall supports.
Outer bering
The outer ring consists of rubble stone masonry from the second half of the 13th century and was completely renewed in 1912 and equipped with rectangular battlements. In the first quarter of the 14th century, the castle was integrated into the suburban fortifications as a northern bulwark and another wall section was laid in the southwest. The shell tower was originally open on one side, but it was walled up in 1912. The rectangular windows with orthostats are still partly in their original condition.
Gate tower and chapel of Saint Anne
The tower protruding from the south corner of the Bering, with a former rectangular floor plan, was converted into a chapel with an irregular ⅜-end in the area of the upper floor at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century. Today's passage through the tower, the substructure for access to the chapel and the arched portal date from the beginning of the 16th century. The chapel is decorated with frescoes from the beginning of the 16th century. The crucifixion group is depicted on the east wall . Our Lady and Saint Elizabeth can be seen on the south-east wall . The depictions on the south wall each have two bishops and knights, St. Anna herself with St. Joseph and a half-length figure of St. Catherine . The frescoes have been heavily modified by painting over them and were restored in 1954. The high altar was made around 1670. The slightly concave curved altar wall is structured by niches and twisted columns entwined with vine leaves. The antependium is laterally bounded by herm-like volute pilasters with angel heads.
Outer bailey
The outer bailey consists largely of irregular quarry stone masonry from the first quarter of the 14th century. It partially collapsed in the southwest and was rebuilt in 1970. The outer bailey has a simple round arched gate near the south corner and on the south-west front and a shell tower protruding from the wall in the south-west.
See also
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 161–162.
- Dieter Buck: In the realm of knights. Carinthia Verlag, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85378-596-6 , p. 153
Web links
- Entry via Burg Geiersberg to Burgen-Austria