Cock lock

The Hahnenschloss is a castle-like hunting lodge in today's market town of Edelschrott in the Voitsberg district in Styria . Its history goes back to the 1860s. Today it serves as the administrative center of the Herzogberg forest estate.

Location

The hunting lodge is located in the middle of the market town of Edelschrott, in the scattered settlement of Mittlerer Herzogberg , in a clearing between the Hörmannkogel in the northwest and the Laudonkogel in the southeast. The Guggibach , a tributary of the Teigitsch, rises directly north of the property .

The Hahnenschloss has the address Mittlerer Herzogberg 267.

history

The Guggi-Hube used to be on the bottom of today's cock lock. Around 1865 the landowner Lorenz Hohl, who owned the Guggi-Hube from 1829, had today's hunting lodge built as the center of a hunting ground. The district emerged from the estates of the farms Guggi, Fürsthube and Löcker-Öden and was mainly used for hunting capercaillie . Archduke Johann von Austria , who was a friend of Hohl, spent several stays at the Hahnenschloss. From 1872 the property was owned by Ernst Freiherr von Laudon , from whom it went to Fritz Tomann in 1933 . After Fritz's death in 1955, the cock lock went to his son of the same name.

The cock lock serves today as the administrative center of the Herzogberg forest estate.

description

The rooster lock is a simply designed hunting lock surrounded by several outbuildings . A total of 14 cast iron grouse with the monogram of Ernst Freiherrn von Laudon are attached to the building. These were cast in the state foundry near Mariazell .

In the vicinity of the Hahnenschloss there is a pillar shrine from the 17th century with the Fürsthuberkreuz . This wayside shrine sits on a pedestal made of natural stone and has niches painted in brown and red as well as a representation of the Eye of Providence in the gable. The main niche houses a half- length figure of Jesus crucified, and in the adjacent niches there are figures of the two plague saints Rochus and Sebastian . At the back of the wayside shrine is another figure of a saint, which can no longer be clearly identified.

literature

Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 85 .

Individual evidence

^ Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Graz 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 547 .
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 85 .
↑ Barbara Kramer-Drauberg, Heribert Szakmary: palaces, castles and ruins of Styria . tape 1 . Weishaupt, Gnas 2007, ISBN 978-3-7059-0242-8 , pp. 162 .

46.982174 15.057605Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 55.8 " N , 15 ° 3 ′ 27.4" E

[Baravalle547-1] Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Graz 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 547 .

[Topographie85-2] A ^b ^c ^d Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 85 .

[Kramer-3] Barbara Kramer-Drauberg, Heribert Szakmary: palaces, castles and ruins of Styria . tape 1 . Weishaupt, Gnas 2007, ISBN 978-3-7059-0242-8 , pp. 162 .