Fügen Castle
The Castle Add located in the municipality joining the Schwaz district in the Austrian province Tyrol .
History of the castle
The oldest parts of the castle were built around 1550 by Georg von Keutschach from Carinthia , who also began iron mining in this area and is buried in the parish church of Maria Himmelfahrt von Fügen (tombstone from 1581). He had a residential tower built here, which has been preserved with its loopholes and a pointed arch door in the southeast corner of the castle. The next owners from 1581 were the Schneeweiß from Arnoldstein , who were also ironworks and had several smelters built. In 1651 Count Ferdinand Fieger von Friedberg, a brother-in-law of the last Schneeweiß, acquired the castle. Between 1695 and 1702, the Fieger had the palace redesigned into a baroque palace and gave the building its current form.
In 1802, after the Fieger died out, Nikolaus Graf Dönhoff acquired the property and, in 1831–1851, housed a needle factory here to process the iron obtained on site. On the occasion of a conference between Emperor Franz I and Tsar Nicholas I , the song Silent Night, Holy Night was performed publicly for the first time by the Rainer group of singers in 1822 .
In 1926, the Capuchin Father Franz Josef Kramer acquired the property and, with the support of the tertiary school sisters of St. Francis of Hall in Tyrol, set up a denominational boys 'home with an attached, initially one-class school for boys, the so-called St. Josef Knabenheim or the later boys' castle . The institution was responsible for the Seraphic Liebeswerk founded in 1889 by the Capuchin Father Cyprian Fröhlich (1853–1931) . In 1939 the facility was confiscated by the National Socialists , who set up a Gau educational home here until 1943. The children were transferred to Jagdberg and the building was handed over to the Children's Land Dispatch. After the end of the war, the castle was still used by the Allies for a while. From 1946 the St. Josef facility was reintegrated into the Seraphic Liebeswerk and was operated as a denominational boys' education home under the name Bubenburg from 1949 . In the 1950s to 80s, individual fathers and educators perpetrated physical and sexual violence against the children and adolescents entrusted to them.
In 2012 the Seraphic Liebeswerk changed its name and has been called "slw Social Services of the Capuchins" since then. In 2016 the municipality of Fügen bought the castle. Today the slw operates small residential communities under the name slw Jugendhilfe for children and young people who cannot live at home in Fügen, Strass, Fiecht, Kaltenbach and Münster.
Fügen Castle today
The castle is a four-winged building with two turrets and a red marble arched portal that enclose a spacious courtyard. The garden is bordered by a wall with three roundels . Hooded turrets are attached to the northern roof corners. The interior design (ceilings, stairs, doors) is in the style of the 17th century. The staircase has a baroque wooden railing and shows the Fieger coat of arms from 1793.
The palace chapel dates from 1681, and the carved picture of Mariahilf that can be seen here is famous .
literature
- Georg Clam Martinic : Castles and palaces in Austria . Landesverlag in Veritas Verlag, Linz 1991, ISBN 3-85214-559-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Of Evil and Good. An experiment on violence and abuse. Bubenburg 1950 - 1980. Capuchin Social Service, 2014.
- ^ Steering group “Victim Protection Tyrol” report to the Tyrolean provincial government (2010) .
- ^ Social Services of the Capuchins
- ↑ Fügen and the lock - what happens? , mein district.at
- ↑ community Add buys the boys Castle , meinbezirk.at
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Coordinates: 47 ° 20 ′ 46.8 " N , 11 ° 50 ′ 56.3" E