Eibiswald Castle

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The castle in June 2011

The Eibiswald Castle is a castle in the market town Eibiswald in Styria in Austria .

Its history goes back to the second half of the 12th century . Since 1953 the castle has belonged to the Chamber of Commerce of Styria, which maintains a state vocational school there.

Location

The castle stands on a hill within the local area of ​​Eibiswald.

history

At the site of today's castle there used to be a castle, probably built around 1170, which was originally probably owned by the von Mureck family and secured the road to the Radlpass . It is considered to be the successor to the “Turmbauerkogel” complex south of Eibiswald, whose beginnings are also dated to the 11th and 12th centuries. At the end of the 15th century , the buildings on the Turmbauerkogel were used to expand the Eibiswald Castle. When the administrative focus shifted from the complex on the Turmbauerkogel to the Eibiswald Castle cannot be determined exactly, the change is related to the redesign of the Eibiswald village in the time of King Ottokar II. Přemysl , who was also ruler of Styria from 1261 brought. After the Mureck family died out, the castle came into sovereign possession. The first documentary mention of the seat comes from the year 1255, when it was awarded to Herbort von Füllenstein together with the associated regional court. In the 13th century the castle was named "Ybanswalde", which can be traced back to a Mr. Iwein. In 1294 the estate came to Hartnid von Wildon as a fief . The Wildoners appointed servants who administered the estate for them and named themselves after Eibiswald, although they were not related to one another.

The Lords of Wilthausen succeeded the Wildoners in 1332 . However, in order to settle various inheritance claims, they had to pledge the castle to Haug von Tybein (Duino) in 1345 . In 1401 Eibiswald came to Rudolf I von Walsee . During the Walsee feud , the castle was stormed by mercenaries of Duke Ernst . Only after the peace agreement with the Duke came Eibiswald back into the possession of the Lords of Walsee , who, however, had to pledge it briefly to Leutold von Stubenberg in 1456. Wolfgang V. von Walsee sold the rule to Emperor Friedrich III in 1464 . who leased it to Wilhelm Graßl a few years later. After Graßl had fallen in the fight against the Turks, Andree Spangsteiner took over the lease in 1475. In 1479 there was an occupation by the Hungarians. Emperor Maximilian I sold the estate to Siegmund von Eibiswald in 1500. The Turks invading via the Radlpass in 1532 devastated the farms belonging to the Eibiswald rulership, but spared the castle.

In 1572 a fire broke out that destroyed the castle. Wilhelm von Eibiswald had the fire ruin expanded into a renaissance castle . After his death in 1576, the rule of Eibiswald went back to the sovereigns. Wilhelm's brothers, Christof and Georg, could not buy them back, only lease them. Archduke Karl of Inner Austria sold the castle in 1579 to Hans Leyb, who expanded it further. In 1622 the property came into the possession of Julius Neidhart von Mörsperg (later Count von Mörsperg and Beffort), who acquired it in 1624 as a free owner . Between 1639 and 1674 the Barons von Eibiswald sat on the property again. After 1674 the castle came into the possession of Otto Wilhelm Graf Schrottenbach ( Schrattenbach ) and his family. Ignaz Ernst Purgay was administrator from 1775, tenant from 1784 and owner of the Eibiswald estate from 1800. Since Purgay was in debt because of unsuccessful speculation, the property was confiscated in 1820 and sold to Friedrich Georg Hansa in 1829. The Hansa family remained in possession of the castle until 1883. In 1890 the Vinzenzverein bought the castle for voluntary poor relief and set up a boarding school for boys, which existed until 1938. Since 1953 the building has belonged to the Chamber of Commerce of Styria, which maintains the state vocational school for electrical installation technology and radio mechanics there. The last restoration of the castle took place in 1985.

description

Part of the column arcades on the ground floor

The castle is a four-wing, two-story complex around a narrow, rectangular inner courtyard. On three sides of the courtyard there are three-storey column arcades , which are glazed on the upper floors. The entrance facade in the east has a central projection from the beginning of the 19th century. The rusting twin portal from the late 17th century serves as the entrance portal to the castle. The triangular gable above the twin portal dates from the beginning of the 19th century and was built on the site of a clock tower from the 17th century. Next to the portal is a fresco depicting the castle in the late 17th century. The rooms on the first floor are spanned by massive groin vaults. On the second floor there are some heavy wooden beam ceilings. There are also some stucco ceilings from the second half of the 17th century.

Only a few remains of the former fortifications have been preserved. In the past, the castle was surrounded by a wall with battlements , which was reinforced in the south by two projecting square towers. Access was via a round gate tower . In front of the moat there was a round tower to protect the entrance. The moat was filled in towards the end of the 17th century. On the site of the fortifications, buildings for school operations were built in the 20th century.

literature

  • Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 83 .
  • Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces in Styria. Part III. Graz, Leibnitz, West Styria. 2nd edition, Vienna 1981 (1st edition 1967), ISBN 3-85030-028-5 , pp. 26-28.
  • Otto Lamprecht: School and Home. Special volume of the magazine of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, 1964, p. 93.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Eibiswald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 83 .
  2. ↑ Ebner, Burgen und Schlösser, p. 170.
    Christoph Gutjahr, Georg Tiefengraber: The medieval fortification "Turmbauerkogel" near Eibiswald (Ivnik), district of Deutschlandsberg, West Styria. With an archaeozoological appendix by Christoph Grill. In: Arheološki vestnik (Arh. Vest.). Volume 55, year 2004. Pages 439-480. ( Article (PDF; 3.3 MB) in German, Slovenian and English abstract, Slovenian translation)
    Walter Modrijan: The medieval settlement and fortification system on the Turmbauerkogel I and II. With an "excavation report " by Fritz Felgenhauer. In: Gerhard Pferschy (Hrsg.): Settlement power and economy. Festschrift Fritz Posch for his 70th birthday. Publications of the Steiermärkischen Landesarchives volume 12. Graz 1981. Pages 81-88.
  3. ↑ a b c d entry about Eibiswald on Burgen-Austria

Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 15 ° 14 ′ 38.1 ″  E