Strassfried castle ruins
| Strassfried castle ruins | ||
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Thörl-Maglern | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 32 '59 " N , 13 ° 39' 39" E | |
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The Strasbourg castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle near the Austrian-Italian border near Thörl-Maglern ( Arnoldstein municipality ) in Carinthia .
location
The name of the castle indicates its location and earlier strategic importance. Straßfried lies on a wooded hill north of Maglern at the intersection of the road to Italy with the road from the Gail Valley . To the east of today's town was the Roman road station Meclaria , which was located on the road that was built in the 1st century AD and connected the Danube region with northern Italy.
history
Numerous statuettes made of lead, tin and bronze of Celtic and Roman origin indicate an ancient sanctuary on the hill. At the southern foot of the hill there were Roman buildings, the ruins of which served as a burial ground in late antiquity. Another find is an early medieval enamel disc fibula from the 10th century (C 181, 1991, 111ff.).
The castle was first mentioned in a document as "castrum strazvrid" in 1279, when the property fell from the Carinthian dukes to the Habsburg King Rudolf . This left it to the diocese of Bamberg , which had the castle expanded in the 13th century to guard these important trade routes to the fortress. It remained in the possession of Bamberg until 1441. In 1687 Abbot Emmeran von Arnoldstein bought the facility. Great damage suffered Strasbourg Fried by the French occupation during the Napoleonic Wars when the French in 1797 parts of the fortress blew up.
Building description
Straßfried is an extensive complex located on a steep hill. Of the former twin tower complex, only the eastern of the two keep made of quarry stone with corner blocks is preserved. The curtain wall is still present at a considerable height, but only small parts of the palace . The remains of Gothic residential and farm buildings and a cistern can be found around the narrow courtyard .
Engraving from 1688 ( Valvasor )
Layout
Eastern keep
Wall at the eastern keep
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 488
- FX Kohla, GA v. Metnitz, G. Moro: Carinthian Castle Studies, Part One. Carinthia's castles, mansions and fortified sites History Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1973
- Hermann Wiessner, Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka: Castles and palaces in Carinthia. Hermagor, Spittal / Drau, Villach Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1986 (2nd expanded edition)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dehio Kärnten , Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 488
Web links
- Description of Strassfried Castle (burgendet.com)