Fürstenhof Friesach
The so-called Fürstenhof in Friesach consists of the actual Fürstenhof and a stately Schüttkasten .
history
The complex was owned by the Archbishopric of Salzburg until 1804 and then first became state property and later became private property. Today the town hall is housed in the courtyard house. In 1999/2000 the Fürstenhof and the storage building were adapted for the Carinthian State Exhibition . The renovations, the glass-covered steel pergola and the steel walkway on the city wall were planned by the architects Manfred Kovatsch, Josef Klingbacher and Herbert Douschan.
Fürstenhof
The building is a four-storey complex consisting of two main wings at right angles to each other. The medieval north wing is an elongated, three-storey building consisting of a tower, a residential building and a chapel. In the late Middle Ages, the upper tower floors were removed from the 13th century building and the upper floors were rebuilt. The chapel from the first quarter of the 14th century extended over the two upper floors. The chapel dedicated to St. Virgil was profaned and built in 1826 . The cellar rooms were vaulted around 1560. In the 16th century, the three-storey, four-axis arcade front was added to the courtyard side of the north wing.
The west wing is a building with a slightly curved course and an irregular distribution of floors and axes. The monumental main facade shows early baroque forms. The passage, a high four-bay hall, was created in the 17th century to connect the two originally separated wings. In the passage is the Roman epitaph for the natives Subito, his wife Vercilla and his son Castio as well as a building inscription for the restoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the Termunes. The west wing is accessed from the stairwell on the upper floor via a courtyard-side, six-bay arcade. At the southeast corner of the courtyard front is a two-story, one- bay loggia from the 16th century.
Bulk box
The bulk box, which was built in the first quarter of the 14th century, was used until the end of the Salzburg rule to store the grain to be delivered to the Carinthian subjects. In 1582 the building was partially destroyed by fire.
The Schüttkasten is a four-storey building built in the northeast corner of the city wall between two older defensive towers from the 13th century. The outer facade is formed on the ground floor by the city wall. A two-storey pillar arcade porch with a monopitch roof was added to the courtyard side in the second half of the 16th century. The former stables were on the ground floor.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , 176 f.
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Austrian Art Monograph Volume VIII: Carinthia. The St. Veit an der Glan district . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , p. 66 ff.
- Otto Kapfinger: New Architecture in Carinthia. Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2006, ISBN 3-7025-0515-6 , pp. 5/27.
Web links
- Entry via Fürstenhof Friesach to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 14 ° 24 ′ 19.8 ″ E