Pobrežje Castle
The ruins of Pobrežje Castle (Freyenthurn Castle) are located in the settlement of the same name in the Bela Krajina region in Slovenia .
history
| Degree Pobrežje na Kolpi |
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| Ivan Žebota , 1903 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 44.5 × 35 cm |
| Ivan Žebota
Link to the picture |
In 1547 the Croatian nobleman Ivan Lenković from the Žumberak area came into possession of the settlement of Pobrežje on the Kolpa near the villages of Purga and Dolenjci in Bela krajina , because it was part of the Maichau Castle property that he had acquired. His stone coat of arms, which was once part of the castle, is kept in the Bela Krajina Museum in Metlika. After this settlement came into his possession, he settled Uskoks there. On his tombstone is written: "Hans Lenkowitsch zu Freyenthurn an der Colp".
Lenković, who later became general of the military border , asked the Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I in 1550 for permission to build a castle on a rock high above the Kolpa River, where a ford lay. The castle was finally completed in 1557 as a defense system against the Turks. It became the most important and largest fortification of the Bela krajina. The castle was called Freienthurn (or Freyenthurn) in German, probably because the Turks could never take it.
The plant was burned down twice during the Second World War. An Italian post was housed there during the Italian occupation. The castle was last set on fire on March 22, 1945 by the partisans. The main destruction followed after the war, when the residents of Adlešiči used the ruins to rebuild their burned down village.
Today only ruins of the once mighty castle are essentially left.
Due to its idyllic location, the castle was very popular with artists and poets at the beginning of the 20th century. It was immortalized in oil by the painters Ivan Žebota in 1903 (now owned by the Maribor Art Gallery) and by Franc Klemenčič in 1923.
The painter and poet Maksim Gaspari even dedicated a stanza of a poem to her in 1936. The first drawings of the system were made by Valvasor in 1689.
gallery
The only building that is still inhabited
goal
View with tower
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Majda Smole, Graščine na nekdanjem Kranjskem, državna založba Slovenije, Ljubljana, 1982
- ↑ Ivan Stopar, Grajske stavbe v osrednji Sloveniji 2, Dolenjska. Knj. 5, Bela krajina, Viharnik, 2004
- ↑ Ivan Jakič, "Slovenski Gradovi" Leksikon slovenske grajske zapuščine, državna založba Slovenije, Ljubljana, 1999, str.240-241
- ↑ Niko Župančič: "400 let gradu in trdnjave Pobrežje na Kolpi" (German: 400 years of Pobrežje castle and fortress on the Kolpa), Dolenjski list, no. 22 (428), 1958
Coordinates: 45 ° 31 ′ 51.4 " N , 15 ° 18 ′ 46.8" E