Hollenburg Castle
| Hollenburg Castle | ||
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 The Hollenburg in Carinthia |
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Received or received substantial parts | |
| Place: | Köttmannsdorf | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 32 '50 " N , 14 ° 15' 42" E | |
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The castle Hollenburg ( Slovenian : Humberk ) is a broad hilltop castle in Rosental on the rocky southern slope of Sattnitz to Drava . The property is located in today's municipality of Köttmannsdorf , KG Hollenburg, Carinthia.
history
The Hollenburg presumably stands on the site of the curtis ad Trahoven mentioned in documents 860 and 876 . The current castle was probably built around the year 1100 by ministerials of the margraves of Styria, a family of the Hollenburgers is documented for the year 1142 . When the traffic route over the Loiblpass was expanded in the 13th century , the castle gained strategic importance. The owners of the Hollenburg (including the Pettauer and the Stubenberger ) then repeatedly got into disputes with the Viktring monastery on the one hand , but appeared again as donors, for example for the important Gothic stained glass windows of the collegiate church.
The castle was partially destroyed by the earthquake of 1348 , but was immediately rebuilt. The Hollenburg is recorded as the seat of a district judge for the year 1349.
Emperor Maximilian I sold the castle to Siegmund von Dietrichstein in 1514 and declared it a baron. The Dietrichsteiners had the castle expanded to its present-day representative shape in the 16th and 17th centuries. The last male descendant of the Dietrichstein family died in 1861. In 1913, Ludwig "Louis" Wittgenstein (1845–1925), an uncle of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein , acquired the castle and rule. By inheritance, the Hollenburg came to the Maresch family in 1923 and finally to the Kyrle family, one of the owners was Johannes Kyrle .
Building description
The irregular shape of today's complex can be traced back to the course of the medieval Bering . The north-facing entrance to the castle leads through a gate tower built in the middle of the 17th century with a stepped gable and an elongated and covered corridor over a neck ditch . On the slope side, the castle is unadorned, on the valley side it has several twin windows designed in the Renaissance style.
The palace, built in the 14th and 15th centuries, is located in the eastern part of the castle. On the east wing there are two-storey Renaissance arbours (1558) on the courtyard side , and a wooden gallery in the courtyard opposite. The coat of arms of Dietrichstein-Rottal from 1529 and the large alliance coat of arms of Dietrichstein-Starhemberg are on the west wall and on two pillars of the upper arcade. A number of Lutheran meaning and Bible sayings from 1581 as well as dates from the period between 1516 and 1588, which relate to the building activity, were placed above the doors. In the courtyard there are reliefs and inscriptions from Roman tombs.
The castle chapel of St. Nicholas is located on the ground floor of the east wing. It is said to have been mentioned for the first time in 1348, and a second consecration took place in 1684. The walls of the building are decorated with paintings, including a cycle of frescoes from the second half of the 14th century.
See also
literature
- Dehio Handbook Carinthia. Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 312 f.
- Wilhelm Deuer: Castles and palaces in Carinthia. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0307-6 , p. 36 f.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Entry via Hollenburg Castle to Burgen-Austria
- Carinthian provincial government