Princely estate (Plabutsch)
| Princely estate (Plabutsch) | ||
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 View of the Gösting castle ruins |
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| height | 754 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Graz , Styria | |
| Mountains | Plabutsch-Buchkogel-Zug , Grazer Bergland , Lavanttal Alps | |
| Dominance | 6.66 km → Marxenkogel | |
| Notch height | 274 m ↓ Thalerseestraße (Graz) | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 5 '26 " N , 15 ° 23' 6" E | |
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| rock | dolomite | |
| Age of the rock | 400-350 million years | |
| particularities | Graz's local mountain , observation tower | |
The prince's rank is 754 m above sea level. A. high main summit of Plabutsch , the local mountain of Graz in Styria . The Fürstenstandwarte , a historic observation tower, is located directly on the summit .
Location and landscape
The Plabutsch, as a stick in the narrower sense, rises to the west over Graz and the Graz Basin , about 400 meters above the city. It drops off comparatively steeply on all sides, only towards the south does it run out with decreasing height towards the Buchkogel ( 659 m , with Rudolfswarte ) and the Kaiserwald terrace . Its culmination point rises at the northern edge above the Thaler Bach near Gösting and is called the prince's estate. The southern elevation is called Mühlberg ( 720 m ). After the village of Plabutsch has saddled in, the Gaisberg 636 m follows in the train . The eastern foothill is the Hubertushöhe (562 m, with a core tower).
North beyond the Thaler Bach lies the Göstinger ruins mountain with the Jungfernsprung , to the west the Frauenkogel 561 m , both foothills of the Steinkogel ( 742 m ) at the Gratkorner basin , and the Madersberg 540 m already at Thal .
History, development and buildings
| Princely estate (prince waiting room) | |
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 The lookout point |
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| builder | Franz Hauberisser |
| architect | Johann Neuwerth |
| Construction year | 1852 |
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| The waiting room was originally built in 1839 and is a listed building | |
In the 15th century the mountain was called Grafenperg , in the 19th century it was generally known as Bauernkogel , and only later did Blawutsch or Plawutsch spread , which is either derived from a Celtic root bla- for a mining location, in relation to vague references to pre-Roman copper and iron mining , or a Slavic personal name Blagota , probably related to the location of Plabutschdörfl . Fürstenstand is recorded as the summit name on the Austrian map , Plabutsch as the field name of the summit region from the Fürstenstand to the Mühlberg.
The observation tower is right at the summit. Today there is also a wine tavern by the waiting room. The site can be reached via a 5 km long road from Graz-Wetzelsdorf over the Gaisbergsattel (Herrgott auf der Wies) .
On November 7, 2018, the construction of a new cable car system was decided at a press conference in the Graz municipal council. The route will lead at the Peter-Tunner-Gasse over the Plabutsch to Thal near Graz to the Thalersee. The total costs should amount to around 35 million euros. Completion is planned for spring 2022.
Princely estate vantage point
The prince's estate , also known as the prince waiting room, has its roots in the early 19th century. After a visit by Emperor Franz I and his wife Karoline in 1830, a wooden observatory with stone foundations was built in early May 1839. The imperial visit in his role as Styrian sovereign gave the control room its name, a plaque reminds of it.
In 1852 the wooden tower was exchanged for a stone observation tower. The snail shape made of dry rock, which is unusual for viewing points and has been preserved to the present day, is similar in its construction to the core canopy. The construction management took over Franz Hauberisser , who carried out the plan by Johann Neuwerth. The construction lasted until 1888. The realization of a “Bismarck Tower” prevented the outbreak of the First World War , and the control room built in 1934 collapsed again in 1937.
After the reconstruction, the prince's estate was called the Adolf Hitler Tower at the time of World War II , and from 1943 it was used as a flak tower . On August 16, 1950, Herbert Schuen, a businessman in Graz, acquired the property EZ 359 KG Gösting with the prince's status from the Alpine Association, which was open to the public. In the course of the acquisition, the buyer undertook to keep the "Fürstenstand" observation tower on the object of purchase in perfect condition at his own expense and that this observation tower will continue to be accessible to the public including the access points from the basic limits. In the summer of 2014, the prince's estate was closed to the public due to the risk of collapse.
The control room is a listed building .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Hubmann, Bernd Moser: Graz city and cultural geology - an excursion guide. 8th conference of the working group "History of Earth Sciences in Austria" (April 24-26, 2009 in Graz), III. Excursion, In: Reports of the Federal Geological Institute , Volume 45, Vienna 2009, Stop 1: The Plabutsch: Graz local mountain and the place of origin of many of Graz's stone blocks. P. 55 ff, whole article p. 52–72, PDF on ZOBODAT there p. 3 ff.
- ↑ First details: New cable car: From 2022 you will gondola over Plabutsch to Thalersee . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on November 8, 2018]).
- ↑ Plabutsch gondola from 2022 - cable car to the Plabutsch on blounge.at on November 8, 2018
- ↑ Renate Kniely: lookout to Graz . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Graz. Volume 38/39. Graz 2009. p. 430 (full article p. 413–457).
- ↑ Kniely: Outlook waiting around Graz , p. 432.
- ↑ Kniely: Outlook waiting around Graz , p. 433.
- ↑ Kniely: Outlook waiting around Graz , p. 434f.
- ^ Siegfried Nagl , Rudolf Moser , GBG Gebäude- und Baumanagement Graz : GR.-Inquiry no. 728/2015. Renovation of the Graz observation tower . Graz City Council, Graz 2015. - Full text online (PDF; 2.5 MB) , accessed on January 29, 2018.