Lavant Castle
| Lavant Castle | ||
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 Burg Lavant (left outer bailey, right main castle) |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1293 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Friesach | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 57 '9.1 " N , 14 ° 24' 2.2" E | |
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The Burg Lavant is the ruins of a hilltop castle just below the castle Petersberg on the northwestern clifftop of the Petersberg in the town of Friesach in Carinthia . The complex was the residence of the Bishops of Lavant from 1128 until the 17th century . Today the facility is privately owned.
history
The castle was built in the middle of the 13th century to its present size and was first mentioned in a document in 1293. Under Bishop Martin Herkules Rettinger von Wiespach , numerous renovations and new buildings took place in 1561. After the fire of 1673, the castle was left to decay.
Building description
The heavily ruined castle consists of the main castle in the west and the extensive outer bailey in the east.
Outer bailey
Access to the outer bailey is on the north side through a medieval arched portal that was modified in the 16th century. The coat of arms stone of Bishop Martin Herkules Rettinger von Wispach is attached to the apex of the arch. In the southeast there is a two-storey outbuilding (Petersbergweg No. 16), the core of which dates from the 15th century. The half-hip roof of the house has a fret gable . Inside, the building was completely renovated in the second half of the 20th century. The annex building in the north-west (Petersbergweg 14), which has also been renovated, has brickwork from the 16th century on the lower floors. The southern storage building from the beginning of the 16th century is integrated on the narrow side into the Bering of the outer bailey. The single-storey building on a rectangular floor plan has two separate entrances on the courtyard side with arched portals to the ground floor and the upper floors. In the hall on the ground floor, a four-bay groin vault rests on mighty pillars. The false ceilings on the upper floors and the roof are no longer there.
Main castle
A wide arched portal and a barrel-vaulted gate hall form the entrance to the main castle . On the left side, the garment from the middle of the 13th century with orthostats has been preserved. A funnel window from the 15th century can be seen on the south wall. There is a cistern in the courtyard. A round arched portal in the southern curtain wall leads into the kitchen built on the outside. It is a former three-storey building over a rectangular floor plan from the 16th century, which is today in a very ruinous condition.
On the courtyard side, the east wing has a ground-level arched portal from the first half of the 14th century with a smooth stone wall . A brick staircase forms the access to the upper floors, the corridor stands on a representative late medieval pillar arcade . The southern part of the wing was completely removed. The north wing is a former three-storey, representative episcopal residential building with arched arcades on the ground floor and a pointed arch portal from the first half of the 14th century on the upper floor. The west wing is a formerly free-standing structure from the beginning of the 14th century, integrated into the Bering, which was later integrated into the new construction of the west wing. The portals date from the second half of the 13th and first half of the 14th centuries. According to older images, the chapel on the first floor protruded over the curtain wall towards the north. The three floors of the west wing have been preserved in full. The ground floor is barrel vaulted.
The tower served both as a castle tower and as a corner fixture for the walling of the Neumarkt suburb that was built in the middle of the 13th century . The brickwork on the north and east walls has been preserved up to the third floor. The foundations of the north wall date from the second half of the 12th century, the quarry stone masonry above it was built in the 13th century and the walls from the second floor onwards in the late Middle Ages.
See also
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 160 f.
- Wilhelm Deuer: Castles and palaces in Carinthia. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0307-6 , p. 85.
