Nussberg Castle
| Nussberg Castle | ||
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 Nussberg castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | probably 12th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Place: | Frauenstein- Nutberg | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 46 '48.3 " N , 14 ° 18' 49.3" E | |
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The castle Nussberg is the ruins of a hilltop castle above the same scattered settlement in the municipality of Frauenstein west of St. Veit an der Glan in Carinthia . The remains of the building are under monument protection .
history
The castle was probably built in the early 12th century, expanded in the 13th century and reached its greatest expansion stage in the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1148 a Ruodeger de Nuzperch was mentioned in a document, he was Ministeriale of the Duke of Carinthia. His descendants include Albrecht von Nussberg, who took part in the Friesacher Tournament in 1224, and Chunradus de Nuszperch, who took part in the minstrel Ulrich von Liechtenstein's journey to Venus . In the 13th century the castle came to the Styrian nunnery of Göss , which it gave as a fief . Towards the end of the 14th century the property passed to the Värber on Frauenstein. In 1478 it fell into the hands of the Hungarians invading Carinthia and was then besieged for three weeks by soldiers of the imperial captains Preunner and Mundbrot until the Hungarian troops had to surrender. After the Värber died out in the 16th century, Johann Welzer von Eberstein acquired Nussberg Castle, which remained in the family's possession until 1700. At this point the castle was already in decline. The property first came to Andreas von Mayerhofen, was later incorporated into the Kraig domain and finally came into the possession of the Goëss family .
Building description
The ruin is located in the forest on the north side of the Gauerstall on a rock outcrop roughly in the middle of the slope. There are only a few remains of the wall from the Romanesque period of construction, but there are still relics of the Gothic gate tower. The castle was accessed via the south side of the complex, where the fortress wall and a ditch can be seen. The other sides did not have to be secured by defenses due to the steep slope. The buildings are grouped around an approximately rectangular, 20-meter-long inner courtyard. Four vaulted rooms and the outside staircase of the Gothic residential wing have been partially preserved, with rising masonry above them. There is another multi-storey building opposite the gate tower . In the remains of the main gate are the fragments of two walled-in, Roman-era inscription panels.
See also
literature
- Dehio Carinthia 2001 . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 581.
- Siegfried Hartwagner : Carinthia. The district of St. Veit an der Glan (= Austrian art monograph, Volume VIII). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , p. 158.
