Altenhofen Castle
Altenhofen Castle was a castle in what is now the municipality of Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth in the Graz-Umgebung district in Styria . Its history can be traced back to the 13th century. Its roots are believed to be in the 10th century. During its existence, the castle was owned by several noble families before it was demolished in 1860.
Location
According to Robert Baravalle, the castle was located on the northeastern edge of today's Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth, not far from the farm with the vulgon name Triebl at the address Sankt Oswald No. 1. According to the Josephinische Landesaufnahme from 1787 and the GIS-Styria it was located but southeast of Sankt Oswald. The intersection of the streets running west from Graz and Gratwein was located near the castle .
history
The name Altenhofen suggests an old residence that could have been built in the 10th century. However, there is no evidence of this residence or its builders. The name Althofen was probably only used with the construction of Plankenwarth Castle in the 13th century. What is certain is that the Althofen residence already existed before Plankenwarth Castle was built and that it was better equipped than that. Altenhofen had its own keep and court, both of which were sovereign fiefdoms. After the construction of the more conveniently located and better defendable castle Plankenwarth, Altenhofen lost its importance, but still served as the administrative center for the surrounding farms. From the 13th century, a noble family is known that named itself after the Altenhofen estate and whose first representative, mentioned in a document in 1254, was Mangold von Altenhofen. It is possible that members of this noble family built Plankenwarth Castle.
A Mangold von Altenhofen, probably the grandson of the family member of the same name mentioned earlier, gave the Rein monastery several property of the rulership in 1311 . After his death in 1312, the property came to Ernst von Teuffenbach , who had married Margret, Mangold's only daughter, around 1280. Ernst's son Ortolf named himself after the residence, which remained in the possession of the Teuffenbacher von Altenhofen during the entire 14th century, a branch of the Upper Styrian Teuffenbacher. On September 24, 1422, Hans von Teuffenbach von Altenhofen exchanged various grain services with the Rein monastery for the March fodder rights to the monastery property in Sankt Oswald. In 1433 Tristram von Teuffenbach received the princely fief over the rights of the property.
Tristram von Teuffenbach sold the Altenhofen residence to his nephew Ruprecht von Windisch-Graetz on March 1, 1450 , whereby he granted himself the right to buy it back within 10 years. He made use of this right as he was again in possession of Altenhofen in 1462. Only two years later he sold it again, this time to his own wife Adelheid, from whom it came to the former administrator of the estate, Sigmund Roggendorfer, subject to a perpetual right of repurchase . In 1465 Roggendorfer also received the sovereign fiefdom of the estate, but Tristram von Teuffenbach bought the residence back again. His two sons Andrä and Georg sold Altenhofen on October 12, 1473 to their relative Ernst von Pranckh . This used Altenhofen as an administrative center for the goods he had acquired in the area since 1445. In the following years, however, the residence was probably neglected, as it had a rather low value in an estimate made in 1542 and accumulated high debts in the following years. Due to the debts, Ernst von Pranckh had to sell the neglected property on January 6, 1582 to the court vice chancellor Wolfgang Schranz, who in turn handed it over to Martin Pletschnig the following year. Hans von Pranckh, Ernst von Pranckh's brother, also had shares in the rule, and in order to assert his claims, he sold them to Christof Gabelkhoven. In order to avoid the dispute between the two brothers, Pletschnig sold his share of the residence to Georg Christof Rüd von Khollenburg, who was able to decide the dispute in his favor in 1596. Altenhofen came from Khollenburg to Prosper Skoliko in 1600, who sold it to Hans Karl Herzenskraft due to debts. This in turn had the property seized in 1612 and got into disputes with the owners of Plankenwarth over the fishing rights in the Liebochbach . After Herzenskraft's death, Hans Wilhelm Freiherr von Galler dissolved the rule as one of the numerous heirs, but had to sell it to Magdalena Freiin von Galler in 1630. At that time the castle was already in poor condition and Magdalena asked the sovereign for material support to renovate the building.
Magdalene Freiin von Galler finally sold Altenhofen in 1641 to Georg Adl, who accumulated tax debts on the estate, so that his son Georg Adam sold it in 1651 to Euphrosine Scholastika, Freiin von Wilfersdorf. It was followed in 1663 by Wolf Ehrenreich Paniquar and in 1699 by Johann Georg Grauf Saurau . From Karl Maria Graf Saurau Altenhofen came to his father-in-law Ferdinand Leopold Graf Breuner in 1718 and from him back to his son-in-law in 1729. Karl Maria's widow sold the estate to Georg von Cronthall in 1731. In 1739 one found Visitation of the chapel instead. After Cronthall's death, his fortune was declared bankrupt , which is why his sons let the forests of the dominion slew. In 1763 Altenhofen was bought by Anton Seyfried Moshart, and through his widow it came to Karl Graf Stürgkh in 1806 , who connected it with his rule of Plankenwarth. The ruined castle was finally demolished in 1860.
literature
- Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Graz 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 146-147 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Graz 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 146 .
- ↑ a b c Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Graz 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 147 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 5 ′ 4.3 ″ N , 15 ° 16 ′ 56.3 ″ E