Alt-Grabenhofen Castle
The Alt-Grabenhofen Castle , also called Stadlerischer Hof , was a castle north of Graz , between the Reinerkogel and the Rosenberg (probably on the corner of today's Grabenstrasse / Hochsteingasse) near the Neu-Grabenhofen Castle . It was first mentioned in a document in 1294 as a defense yard . In 1662 it was described as "not unlike a castle". It was demolished after 1773 because of dilapidation.
description
When it was first mentioned in a document in 1294, the estate probably consisted of nothing more than a fort and a few goods. In 1633 the property comprised the defense yard , a meier yard , a castle keep , four gardens, a pond, a lower hunt and several fishing waters. In 1662 it consisted of a castle-like fortified courtyard, a chapel, a quarry, a pond, as well as several gardens and fields.
history
Alt-Grabenhofen Castle is named after the noble lords of Graben , who were mentioned by the historian Valvasor as lords of Graben Castle not far from Rudolfswerth ( Novo mesto ), in what was then Mittelkrain . The line that owned the area at Graben and Grabenhofen is known as the Konradinische Linie Am Graben . Alt-Grabenhofen was probably initially a fief of the Lords of Walsee . The noble Orsini-Rosenberg family is also derived from the Lords of Graben auf Grabenhofen . According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility in 1322, Konrad ab dem Rosenperg, perhaps identical with Konrad II vom (ab dem) Graben or one of his closest relatives, was named as the first representative mentioned in a document , who was named after the name of the man next to the castle Rosenberg accepted.
Since the Conradin line of the lords of Graben Am Graben with Reinprecht IV. Vom Graben ended around 1468, the estate, or parts of it, came to the lords of Graben of the Kornberg line . When the male line with Andrä von Graben also became extinct on April 14, 1556, at least part of the property passed to his hereditary sister Anna von Graben and her husband Christoph von Stadl, ancestors of the later imperial counts Von Stadel-Kornberg .
In the period that followed, there were violent inheritance disputes, which were only settled by Archduke Maximillian's arbitration . As a result of the arbitration award, half of the property went to the von Stadl and half to the von Neuhaus .
Around 1611 the estate was valued at 12,000 guilders . After Christoph Stadler's death in 1611, his son Georg Leopold Freiherr von Stadl inherited the farm, which he sold to his mother Salome. In 1619, the citizen of Graz, Georg Klemmenraht, bought the estate. In 1622 Sabina von Glojach was able to buy the farm for a fifth of the real purchase price with the help of the purchase right . When she died in 1633, the farm was also called the “Stadlerischer Hof” and was valued at 3,500 guilders. The heirs' guardian , Hans Karl von Glojach, sold the estate to Christof Freiherrn von Eibiswald in the same year, who appointed an administrator. In 1650 his widow leased the farm for 300 guilders and leased it for 800 guilders. In 1662 the estate was described as "not unlike a castle" and valued at 4,500 guilders. From 1740 - due to the increasing debts of the owner - a public administrator had to be appointed. Since the property was very neglected, nobody wanted to buy it and it was foreclosed in 1765. The bakery trade in Graz acquired the estate for 24,000 guilders, but only used the existing mills. The dilapidated castle and some goods were sold to Josef Boseth von Trautenburg in 1773, who connected it with his property, Neu-Grabenhofen Castle. After 1773 the castle was demolished and the building material was used for other buildings.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grabenhofenweg 64, Neu-Grabenhofen
- ^ Collegium Res Nobilis Austriae: Orsini and Rosenberg
- ^ City of Graz, building history of Grabenstrasse
literature
- Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam, Graz 1995, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 14–15 (first edition: 1961).