Herberstorff Palace

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Main front to Langgasse, right behind the Obal tower, the central western defense tower of the Radkersburg fortress
Herberstorff Palace, the inner courtyard with the arcades.

The Herberstorff Palace , also known as Freyspurghof or Freyspurger Hof, is a building in the middle of the historic old town of Bad Radkersburg . With its three-storey Renaissance arcade courtyard, it represents the type of Renaissance palace in the region. It is a listed building .

location

The palace stands on the so-called Obal tower of the medieval city ​​fortifications , which was located in the W point of the east-west axis of medieval urban planning . The tent roof of the tower can be seen from the eastern area of ​​the main square. The Herberstorff Palace today bears the house name Langgasse No. 27 and, with its classicist facade from 1803 and the two-row, seven-axis window front , faces the main square. The entrance to the city's most beautiful arcaded courtyard is possible through a side portal from Dechanthofgasse. The original main entrance from Langgasse currently serves as the entrance to the existing shop. With its west wing, the building touches the medieval wall ring of the former city fortifications and leans against the massive, somewhat advanced, so-called Obal tower, a defense tower from the Middle Ages, part of the southern area of ​​the Pfaffen - Bastei . As early as September 1952, the magnificent building was the first private house in the city to be listed as a historical monument. It is currently used as a residential and commercial building.

history

Hartwig von Monsberg was one of the patrons of the city of Radkersburg in the last decades of the 13th century. Around 1290 he is mentioned as the lordly burgrave of the city and probably died here after 1294. Since that time, the Monsberger knight family in the city of Radkersburg has had a free court with noble privileges, where they lived for a longer period of time and made their fortunes have owned.

When the Monsbergers died out around 1410, the Stickelbergs related to them acquired the Radkersburger Freihof. Leuthold of Stickelberg inherited the town house and the associated ground rent , the property was free, his cousin Konrad. His daughter Barbara von Stickelberg brought the rule to her husband Heinrich von Enzersdorf as a dowry in 1432 . Wilhelm, a son from this marriage, was mentioned in 1459 as the landlord of the "Enzersdorferischer Freihof", and in 1527 the rule was in the hands of Veit von Enzersdorf. In 1542, his heirs had the income from the rulership reassessed and a validity payment was made . In 1580 Wolf Christian von Enzersdorf sold the manor with the urban noble residence to the couple, Baron Karl von Herberstorff and his "housewife" Anna Susanne, née Liechtenstein.

Herberstorff Palace, the coat of arms on the north wing of the inner courtyard.

Herberstorff and his wife, who were already fortunate with the Prentlhof in the Radkersburg region just outside the city, had the old manor house demolished and commissioned the fortress master builder Giovanni Battista della Porta de Riva to build the building with the magnificent arcaded courtyard.

A coat of arms on the facade of the north wing in the inner courtyard of the house reminds of the client and his wife . It shows the Herberstorff coat of arms on the left, a four-spoke mill wheel with eight blades and on the right, that of Liechtenstein- Murau , two slanting black bars in the silver field. The memorial stone bears the following inscription:

THE * HAVS * HAVE * KAVFFT * THE * EDL * VND * GESTRENG * MR * CARL * VON * HERBERSTORFF * VND * FRAV * ANNA * SVSANNA * FROM * HERBERSTORF * A * BORN * MISTRESS * FROM * LIECHTENSTAIN * FROM * MVERAV * HIS * MARRIAGE * GEMAHEL * IM * 80 ISTEN * IAR * VND * SO * IN * GOD'S * NAME * WITH * EACH OTHER * AVFPAVT * THE * ALMIGHTY * GOD * GIVE * DARZVE * A * GLICKHSAILIGEN * AVS * VND * INPUT * AMEN * 1583

literature

  • Hans Pirchegger: Lower Styria in the history of their dominions and guilds, cities and markets . Munich 1962.
  • Georg Kodolitsch: Radkersburg, Art History City Guide , Leykam Verlag, Graz 1974, ISBN 3-7011-7903-4 .
  • Erwin Reidinger : The medieval city complex of Radkersburg. Pp. 185-213. In: Hermann Kurahs, Erwin Reidinger, Sepp Szedonja, Johann Wieser: Bad Radkersburg. Natural area and population. History, urban layout, architecture. City of Bad Radkersburg, Bad Radkersburg 1997.
  • Heimo Halbrainer: On the trail of the Protestants, Jews, Roma and Slovenes in and around Bad Radkersburg , Pavelhaus / Pavlova hiša, Graz, 2003, ISBN 3-9501567-4-7 .
  • Dušan Kos: In castle and town, late medieval nobility in Carniola and Lower Styria. Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-58076-0 .

Web links

Commons : Palais Herberstorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bad Radkersburg, Axis cross and basic rectangle Erwin Reidinger, accessed on December 11, 2014
  2. ↑ Northwest view of the Obal Tower Erwin Reidinger, accessed on December 11, 2014

Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′ 14.2 ″  N , 15 ° 59 ′ 9.6 ″  E