Mühl-Schlössl

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Mühl-Schlössl seen from the park

The Mühl-Schlössl is a small castle on the edge of the Grazer Volksgarten in the fourth district of Lend . Immediately in its vicinity is the Evangelical Kreuzkirche , the rectory of which the castle was adapted in 1910.

history

In 1560 the Protestant landscape doctor Freiherr Christoph von Gabelhofen commissioned the construction of the small baroque palace. After a renovation at the end of the 17th century, it was extensively redesigned in 1898. A bomb attack on April 2, 1945, an Easter Monday, caused severe damage to the Mühl-Schlössl. A thorough restoration was completed in 1955.

Architecture and design

The two-storey building with a hook-shaped floor plan has a hipped roof and a late-historic facade design. Polygonal bay windows have been attached to the west wing since 1898. Some of the column arcades on the ground floor date from the 17th century. The rest was also added in 1898. A single-storey chapel tower is crowned by a dome and an octagonal lantern . At the north-west corner of the building is an arbor on pillars with a balustrade. The figural stucco door decoration dates from 1898.

On the first floor of the Mühl-Schlössl is the former house chapel, which was consecrated to St. Paul the Eremita. The originally small room was subsequently enlarged. Its stucco ceiling and the door leaves date from the 17th century. The former altar with the altar sheet was created around 1700. The altarpiece with a representation of the chapel saint is now located in the stairway to the choir gallery of the neighboring cruciform church . On the occasion of the adaptation to the evangelical rectory, a wing was added on the south-west side in 1910. A stucco ceiling with foliage and banding decorations from 1710/20 has been preserved on the upper floor of the northeast wing .

literature

  • Bernhard Hans Zimmermann: Saxa loquntur. the Mühlschlössel rectory in Graz, right bank of the Mur . In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria . tape 80 . Vienna 1964, p. 89-98 .
  • Walter Brunner : Bombs on Graz . Leykam, Graz 1989, ISBN 3-7011-7201-3 .
  • Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces Graz, Leibnitz and West Styria . Birken, Vienna 1967, ISBN 3-85030-028-5 , p. 78-79 .
  • Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 164 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brunner: Bombs on Graz. P. 386.
  2. ↑ Ebner: Castles and Palaces. P. 78.
  3. ↑ a b c The art monuments of the city of Graz, The profane buildings of the fourth and fifth district (Lend and Gries) (Austrian art topography, vol. XLVI), edit v. Amèlie Sztatecsny, Vienna 1984
  4. ↑ Ebner: Castles and Palaces. P. 79.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 26.6 "  N , 15 ° 25 ′ 33.3"  E