Flaschberg castle ruins
| Flaschberg castle ruins | ||
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 View of the keep of the castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | first mentioned 1154 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Oberdrauburg | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 44 '58.1 " N , 12 ° 56' 19.2" E | |
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The Flaschberg castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle in the Carinthian municipality of Oberdrauburg .
Location and importance
The castle ruins are located above Flaschberg, a street village about 3 km west of Oberdrauburg. The weir system in Flaschberg was in a strategically favorable position to secure the pass road from the Drau to the Gail and Lesach valleys.
history
A small building called "Flassinperc" first appeared in documents in 1154, when a certain Ugo de Flassinperc was mentioned as a witness in a document from Aquileia . In the regular disputes between the Counts of Gorizia and the Archdiocese of Salzburg - both had extensive estates in the Drautal - the Flaschbergers were in the service of the Gorizia. In around 1280 Ulrich von Flaschberg was accused of seriously damaging the Salzburg population through robbery, the capture of Salzburg subjects and illegal tax collections. Nevertheless, the Flaschbergers were entrusted more and more with diplomatic missions. As a result, they came into possession of lands in the Puster Valley , around Lienz and in Friuli .
With the Peace of Pusarnitz in 1460, all Gorizia possessions, including Flaschberg Castle, were placed under imperial caretakers . As the Flaschbergers lost all influence because of this, Christof von Flaschberg moved from Carinthia around 1500 to serve the Count of Hardegg . The castle finally fell to the Lords of Mandorff , who sold it to Count Widmann-Ortenburg in 1643. Between 1662 and 1918 the Flaschberg castle and lands were owned by the Princes of Porcia . Today the ruin is privately owned.
architecture
Castle ruins
The castle ruin Flaschberg lies on a protruding rock nose and was formerly a stately Romanesque complex with three towers standing next to each other. Today, however, only one of the multi-storey towers, presumably the keep , is preserved up to a height of around 18 meters. It was built on a square floor plan with a side length of 10 meters. Its structure consists of carefully processed quarry stone masonry , which is reinforced on the edges with hewn tuff blocks . The high entrance to the keep is arched and was on the northwest side of the tower. On the northeast side, another arched opening can be seen, which is supported by stone walls and on each side of which there is a high rectangular light slot. There are no remains of the castle chapel , mentioned in 1521 and consecrated to Saint John the Baptist . From Palas and the curtain wall is only slightly preserved.
Castle and farm buildings
The steward's house from the 16th century was expanded like a castle under the Count Widmann-Ortenburg in the middle of the 17th century. The building is a two-storey, rectangular, renaissance building with bay windows.
The farm buildings no longer preserved were probably located on a terraced area south of the main building.
See also
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- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 140.
- Entry about Flaschberg castle ruins on Burgen-Austria , accessed on October 14, 2012