Pichlschloss

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Pichlschloss
Pichlschloss and outbuildings

The Pichlschloss is a castle in Neumarkt in Steiermark , a municipality in the Murau district in Upper Styria , Austria.

history

The castle developed from a small noble farm , which was first mentioned in 1332 as Puhlern bei dem Newenmarcht , and with several changes of ownership until the 15th century was under the rule of Stubenberg . Here is the development of a late medieval noble farm, which after its decline around 1500 in the 16th century can emancipate itself with regard to the property situation. In the first half of the 16th century, Pichl became a farm and was subordinate to Joachim Muerer, a citizen of Knittelfeld. After the noble Leopold Mayer, the Pichl belonged temporarily in 1564, the court in 1565 went for sale on Bartlme Haslinger, the King Ferdinand I raised as a meritorious official in 1543 into the nobility, and by substantial construction the Pichlschloss again befitting noble seat of the Renaissance has made . In 1604, Pichl fell back to the previous owners, the Mayer family (now called Pirker), who sold it to Hans Pichler, resident of Neumarkt, in 1614. In 1625, the Pichler family, originally from the rural milieu, was raised to the nobility with the title “von Pichl”. The descendants led by Lorenz Ehrenreich from 1660 entitled "of Freydenpichl" (joy Pichl) and had Pichl in succession until 1776. In that year the farmer Lorenz Mörzl acquired as a yeoman of the castle. At that time the name "Pichlschloss" became common.

The Plankensteiner family followed from 1826 to 1856 and then the von Dickmann barons. In 1883 the castle was adapted as a spa and sanatorium. From 1909 the Mandl family, in succession Dr. Paumgartner took over the facility and operated it as a sanatorium. During the Nazi era, the Pichlschloss was used as a mother-child home for those in danger of being bombed from Germany and a maternity hospital and was used again as a sanatorium after the Second World War. The castle, which has been in the family for three generations, is run as a hotel.

The property thus traces uses that are characteristic and culturally relevant for the respective epochs and documents these in its building fabric. The building, which is remarkable in terms of building genesis, is characterized by its architecture (cubature, typology, structure) and its furnishings with a multitude and variety of building details as a characteristic, intact noble court of the lower nobility of the 16th and 17th centuries. The richly designed renaissance portal underlines the artistic claim of the house and refers to a major expansion phase under Bartlme Haslinger around 1569. The room configurations with vaults and flat ceilings convey forms and construction methods of the Renaissance and the early Baroque and illustrate the hierarchically organized structure of an early modern aristocratic residence. In this regard, the mill building, located north of the castle building, which was adapted to a residential building around 1900 and largely preserved intact in this architectural language, essentially dating from the 18th century, represents an important aspect of the management of a castle complex.

location

The Pichlschloss is located on a small hill at 876 m above sea level in the Styrian Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen nature park west of Neumarkt. The hill breaks off towards the east over a step in the terrain and is supported by sloping stone walls with intermediate terraces.

architecture

The property consists of an approximately north-south oriented, rectangular north wing from the 2nd half of the 16th century to the 1st half of the 17th century and a also rectangular south wing angled towards the southwest, the old noble courtyard from the middle of the 16th century. These tracts are connected in the sectional area by an access tract from the middle of the 16th century (around 1569) which protrudes to the east and west to form a building structure.

The castle has hipped roofs with all-round roof projections. A wooden gaupe of a former elevator is integrated into the northern roof area of ​​the north wing . On the west side of the north wing there is a two-axis, baroque extension with a flat roof and arbor from the 19th century. The parapet of this arbor is made of iron grating with vertical rung division and a central ring between wall pillars. The north wing has a risalit protrusion on the west side almost in the middle of the facade , the south wing another one on the west side in the second axis from the south. Furthermore, the facades are not structured, on the north facade of the north wing there are chamfered Renaissance-era window frames on the upper floors, otherwise simple rectangular windows can be seen throughout. On the south-west side of the south wing, younger wooden balconies are added on the upper floors.

At the western edge of the connecting wing is the historical main entrance to the castle, which is formed by an artistically sophisticated Renaissance stone portal with rounded, beveled gate walls, rectangular framing and multi-profiled roofing. The coat of arms of Bartlme Haslinger can be found in the arches on the left. It is a split coat of arms: on the left lion and tree, on the right diagonal stripes and on the right presumably his wife's coat of arms (scroll coat of arms with woman in Spanish costume) and the split year 1569. The gate wings with double loops have pull knobs and a key plate, in Josephine-classical forms .

The entrance hall, which is vaulted with a stab cap, has a painted coat of arms of Lorenz Ehrenreich von Pichl and the year 1647. This hall provides access to the barrel-vaulted ground floor rooms of the north and south wing and the groin-vaulted rooms of the essentially baroque western extension. The two vaulted rooms of the south wing have pointed arched stitch caps from the first half to the middle of the 16th century. Frame panel doors with fittings from the 17th to 19th centuries are predominantly found. The central entrance hall leads into the vaulted, single-flight staircase, which ensures vertical access. The floor plan is repeated on the upper floors. The rooms on the first floor are designed as a bel étage. There are some artistically elaborate, partly inlaid framed panels from the 18th century with latticework and rocaille shapes, presumably of foreign provenance and some simpler framed panels. In a room in the north wing there is a cylindrical, richly designed classical stove with a vase. The rooms are predominantly closed off by simple flat ceilings, occasionally with simple stucco frames. The second floor, which was originally used as a bulk and storage floor and expanded in the 20th century, has a room with a solid wooden beam ceiling and a recently installed house chapel.

The residential building to the north of the castle building was used as a mill until the 19th century - there is a stream just to the east - and was adapted as a residential building around 1900. The axis division is articulated by grooved pillar lenses above the undivided ground floor. There are partially doors and windows from the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. The house is organized as a central corridor house with a single staircase on the back. The rooms have mostly flat ceilings, the ground floor hall and stairs are equipped with flat barrels. The crooked roof is surmounted by a brick chimney head designed with smoke outlet double arches and cornices.

Both the "gate system" and the fences adjoining to the south over the core from the 16th / 17th century. Embankment walls made from quarry stone masonry dating back to the 19th century are made from brick rectangular pillars with pyramid covers from around 1900 and wooden fences from more recent times inserted between them.

literature

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 5 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 11.5 ″  E