Damtschach Castle
The Damtschach Castle is a complex that dates back to the early 16th century and is located on the western edge of the village of Damtschach in the municipality of Wernberg in Carinthia . The complex, the castle and the Meierhof, has been owned by the Orsini-Rosenberg family since 1847 .
history
After the Aichelberg Castle in the armed conflict between the Roman-German Emperor Friedrich III. and was destroyed by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus , today's Damtschach Castle developed from the former, lightly fortified farm yard of the castle. After Emperor Maximilian I allowed the lord of the castle, Augustin Khevenhüller , to expand the manor, he built a residence that the Khevenhüller family did not live in, as they preferred to stay in the nearby castles of Wernberg and Landskron . The Damtschach estate itself was administered by carers . In 1629 the Damtschach, Aichelberg and Wernberg estates, along with other estates, were sold to Count Hans Sigmund von Wagensperg by Baron Paul von Khevenhüller, who had to leave Carinthia as a Protestant. Through the buyer's granddaughter, the Counts Galler finally came into possession of the residence, which was expanded as a baroque ensemble from 1684. After Clemens Ferdinand Graf Kaiserstein took over the estate in 1715, the palace was considerably expanded with the construction of new farm buildings and a nursing home. After another change of ownership to the Barons Jöchlinger von Jochenstein (1817), an English-style park was built from 1824. The current owners from the family of Count Orsini-Rosenberg have been the owners of the castle since 1847.
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The main building of the palace complex is a two-storey baroque building with three wings arranged in a horseshoe shape, which is open to the east towards the palace park. The north and west wings were built in the 16th century. Since the terrain has a steep slope in the south and east, retaining walls secure the structure at this point. The square stone portal with a carved wedge stone on the eight-axis north front dates back to the 16th century, as do the rooms on the ground floor of the north and west wing, which were provided with a barrel vault . The cornice roofing goes back to around the year 1700. The square windows on the ground floor are surrounded by stone walls. To the right of the entrance portal on the courtyard side, designed as a beveled basket arch , is the house entrance. On the south side of the courtyard is a small wall fountain made of marble, which was created around 1600. The fountain bowl is under an arch supported by two small columns, in the gusset of which there are two angel heads. The pillar portal with vase-crowned entablature, which separates the courtyard and the palace garden, dates from the beginning of the 19th century.
Castle Church
The castle church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist is located in the south wing of the castle. In its place there was a previous sacred building that was first mentioned in a document in 1431. This was replaced by Countess Maria Isabella Galler (née Staudach) between 1684 and 1695 with today's church building. In 1787 the castle chapel was elevated to a parish church, which it remained until the inauguration of the nearby new parish church in 2003. The church tower is provided with round-arched sound windows, an onion helmet and a lantern , its portal is round-arched and marked with the year 1720 . The portal to the west, with a broken gable and showing the double coat of arms of the Galler-Staudach, dates from the fourth quarter of the 17th century.
The interior, corresponding to the type of a hall church , is structured by pilasters and cornices and has a small, rectangular altar niche in which the high altar from 1684 is located. The altarpiece on oil by Adam Claus shows the baptism of Christ, a theme repeated by the medallion of the antependium . The hall is vaulted by a barrel vault with stitch caps and has remarkable ceiling stucco. The oratory with neo-Gothic, ornamental wall paintings from the 19th century is located above the right side chapel, vaulted with a cross ridge . In the oratory there is a copy of a Byzantine image of Our Lady with a gold crown.
Castle Park
The gardens of Felix Wolfgang Reichsfreiherr Jöchlinger von Jochenstein in the English style and with Biedermeier or romantic furnishings dates from 1824. Late Gothic door robes and coat of arms of the Khevenhüller (15th and 16th centuries) were integrated into the garden wall. In the park there are staffage structures , such as a fortified aqueduct, a bathhouse , as well as bridges and walkways. Spolia from the Landskron castle ruins was also used in the construction of the neo-Gothic artificial ruin made of exposed quarry stone masonry. The entire staffage was restored in 1997 based on illustrations from the 19th century.
The gardens and parks are among the more important garden architectural monuments in Austria and are under monument protection ( No. 5 in the appendix to Section 1, Paragraph 12 of the DMSG ). They are private and inaccessible.
See also
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 68 f.
Web links
- Entry about Damtschach on Burgen-Austria
- First stage of the facade restoration of Damtschach Castle . Federal Monuments Office
Individual evidence
- ^ Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 2 Upper Austria, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol . Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-205-99352-0 , Damtschach, Schlosspark and Schlossgarten , p. 359 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 45.4 " N , 13 ° 57 ′ 57.6" E