Good Hornegg
Gut Hornegg is a farm in the market town of Preding , pol. Deutschlandsberg district in Styria consisting of a castle with a historic model courtyard and a pond system that dates back to management in the Baroque period. Hornegg lies between the Sausal wine route and the Stainzer Schilcherland. Gut Hornegg is known as a company for the sustainable breeding of freshwater fish, and apartments and holiday apartments are also rented out.
history
The first mention of a Konrad von Horneck goes back to the year 1230, when he attested to the clarification of the legal relationships between the Augustinian canons of Stainz and the rule of Wildon . The name of the property Horneck (later Hornegg) probably comes from the Middle High German term hore for swamp , meaning a castle above the swamp , which allows conclusions to be drawn about today's pond areas in the Predinger district of Tobis.
The Saurau family acquired the estate in 1373 and owned Hornegg until 1603, when it was sold as a result of the denominational disputes. Fish farming became an important branch of the economy under the Saurau family and the castle was designed in the Renaissance style . The main portal, dated 1557, marks the completion of this expansion.
For 165 years, from 1620 to the dissolution of the monastery in 1785 by Emperor Joseph II , Hornegg belonged to the Augustinian Canon Monastery of Stainz. The fish from our own farm were brought to the clergy in Stainz as a fasting food. The stucco in the representative rooms on the first floor of the castle still testifies to the spiritual owners.
After numerous changes of ownership, Daniel Lapp acquired the property in 1875. The pioneer in construction technology built the Schwanberg - Wies railway line with his brothers Jakob and Ludwig and was later responsible for the breakthrough of the Arlberg tunnel - for the first time using steam-powered drilling machines - for which he became a nobility was raised. Lapp Hornegg built along the lines of Archduke Johann to a Mustergut from. The current appearance of Hornegg Castle is essentially based on the redesign by Daniel von Lapp in 1875.
The television presenter and radio broadcaster Carl Reichsgraf von Schönfeldt , who hosted the opera ball organized by his future wife Christl “Countess” Schönfeldt in 1963 , lived in his early years at the estate, which his father acquired in 1917 and for this reason he adopted the pseudonym Rudolf Hornegg .
In 1940 the South Tyrolean industrial family Brigl acquired the Hornegg estate, which has been owned by the family since then. The Holler family, descendants of the Brigl family, run Gut Hornegg today as an organic fish farm and holiday home.
Hornegg Castle
The Horneck Castle was strategically located on the foothills of the Spiegelkogel, which sloped steeply on three sides to the former Tobis marshland. Hornegg Castle is a three-storey four-wing building with an inner courtyard with arcades on two sides. The core of the building dates from the 16th century, the main portal is dated to 1557.
There are no early building descriptions and the first picture document comes from Georg Matthäus Vischer from his Topographia Ducatus Stiriae , Graz 1681. The first comprehensive building description, which is probably based on the original use, dates from 1818.
“The stately palace building was tiled, two stories high and had a very small courtyard. In the two underground, vaulted wine cellars there was room for 56 Startin wine in half-starter barrels (one Startin equals 566 liters), next to it there was a spacious cabbage and beet cellar and an insert cellar. On the ground floor of the castle there were three spacious vaults, including the steward's and small supervisor's kitchen, baking kitchen, smoky kitchen, kitchen supplies room, the small milk vault, a vaulted servants' room, a stucco servants' room, a gatekeeper 's room, a stuff room, a vaulted little chicken room, a "private vaulted chicken room" (Abort) - everything in mediocre structural condition. On the first floor there was a spacious, brick-paved entrance hall to the east (good structural condition), to the south four living rooms with stucco, a vaulted living room (in good structural condition), a privet (mediocre), to the west two living rooms with stucco (good structural condition), one Flammable small emergency kitchen for the clerks (covered with shingles, poor condition), to the north an office with stucco, a vaulted archive (good condition), a large "Rondellen room threatening to collapse" and an already collapsed Privet. The second floor finally offered a spacious, brick-paved entrance hall to the east (good condition), to the south three living rooms with stucco (good condition), a privet (mediocre), to the west a large hall in danger of collapsing, to the north two living rooms (good condition), " in the Rundellen the very dangerous chapel threatening to collapse "and on the roof a wooden tower in poor condition."
The castle only underwent major changes after it was taken over by Daniel Lapp in 1875. At that time, it was essentially given its current appearance. The roof system was renewed and a staircase was installed in the north tower. A large balcony was attached to the south facade at the level of the first floor and the facades were supplemented by bay windows, cornices and sculptural elements. In summer 2018, the north facade of the castle was designed by the Styrian artist Bernhard Wolf .
Hornegg Castle has been placed under protection by the Federal Monuments Office.
Figure of Mary by Veit Koeniger
In the park to the north of Hornegg Castle stands the figure of “Holy Mary with Child Jesus and the Boy John”. The sculpture comes from the South Tyrolean sculptor Veit Königer , who after studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in the middle of the 18th century. was based in Graz . In his third marriage, the 61-year-old artist married the 26-year-old Barbara Scheiflein from Preding in 1791.
The sculpture was placed under protection by the Federal Monuments Office.
Pond system
The Hornegger ponds go back to a system from the Baroque period. The majority was created in the 1960s. There are now almost 30 ponds. This pond landscape offers a large number of rare animals an adequate habitat. The existence of the following ponds has been handed down from historical sources: Large mirror pond, crab pond, Tobiste pond, Haselgrabenteich.
Fischgut Hornegg
Gut Hornegg has dedicated itself to the production of old local fish species. Only sustainable forms of production are used. Amur , bream , perch , pike , gable , carp , roach , rudd , tench , catfish and pikeperch are bred . The fish are mainly sold at weekly markets in Graz, Deutschlandsberg, Leibnitz, Preding and from the farm.
In 2012 the cookbook “Fresh Fish” was published by Christian Brandstätter Verlag in Vienna . The authors of this cookbook, which is exclusively dedicated to the Hornegger biodiversity, are the author, presenter and cabaret artist Dirk Stermann and the Graz art historian Christiane Kada, who grew up in Gut Hornegg.
Colluvio - chamber music at Gut Hornegg
Every year in summer, young professional musicians come to Gut Hornegg zu Colluvio, an intensive course in chamber music for violin, cello and piano. Colluvio means mishmash and, against the background of the European south-east expansion, follows the motto that music connects people. Nine to ten young people from Europe, but with a focus on Southeast Europe, will perform challenging chamber music during the ten-day course before they set off on a tour through Central and Southern Europe. The artistic director of Colluvio is the Munich cellist and music teacher Meinhard Holler, who grew up on Gut Hornegg.
The Colluvio concerts are regularly broadcast by various broadcasters. In 2010 Walter Wehmeyer produced a documentary about Colluvio on behalf of ORF with the title “Music after the war. Kosovo between trauma and a new beginning ” . This documentary has been broadcast repeatedly by ORF, BR (Bavarian TV) , WDR , NDR , SWR , 3sat , Arte , Deutsche Welle TV , Planet TV Germany.
literature
- Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs, Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) , Topografisches Denkmälerinventar edited by the Federal Monuments Office (BDA) Department for Monument Research, Berger Verlag, Horn-Wien 2006 (2nd edition), p. 184f.
- Robert Baravalle: Styrian castles and palaces. Part of the building history by Werner Knapp . Heinrich Stiasny's Sons, Graz undated (1936), p. 220ff.
- Gernot Peter Obersteiner: Market town of Preding . Published by the market municipality 8504 Preding Steiermark, Preding 2002
- hengist magazin - magazine for archeology, history, culture and natural history of Central Styria , editor and publisher: Verein Kulturpark Hengist, Hauptplatz 61, 8410 Wildon, www.hengist.at 13th year, issue 2/2016
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gernot Peter Obersteiner: Market community Preding. P. 28
- ↑ https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz48206.html accessed on August 14, 2018
- ↑ http://www.alt-zweibruecken.de/persoenitäten/buerger/daniel-lapp accessed on August 14, 2018
- ^ Gernot Peter Obersteiner: Market community Preding. P. 61f. | ref =
- ↑ http://www.gemeinde-preding.at/schloss_herrschaft_hornegg.html accessed on August 14, 2018
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 20, 2018
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 20, 2018
- ↑ https://mapire.eu/de/map/europe-18century-firstsurvey/?layers=osm%2C163%2C165&bbox=1711046.006526044%2C5919707.799583475%2C1717490.6034733378%2C5921618.725290605. Accessed on August 14, 2018
- ↑ https://www.brandstaetterverlag.com/buch/frische-fische accessed on August 14, 2018
Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ′ 6.7 ″ N , 15 ° 23 ′ 57.8 ″ E