Frauental Castle
The Frauenthal Castle or Frauenthal is a castle in the municipality of Germany mountain in Styria . Its history goes back to the middle of the 16th century. Today it is owned by the Liechtenstein family and a technical school is housed in the building.
Location
The castle is located in the cadastral municipality of Hörbing at Ulrichsberg 1, which belongs to Deutschlandsberg .
history
Frauenthal Castle is presumed to be on the site of the “Nidrinhof” documented in 970. This facility is said to have been founded around 700 AD from Aquileia , which at that time carried out the Christian missionary work of the Kingdom of Noricum . The Nidrinhof was also called “Udulenidvor” in the Slavic language (cf. Slovenian dôl , down, down, down ”). Both names mean the same thing: a low-lying courtyard. It was given to Archbishop Friedrich von Salzburg on March 2, 970 by Emperor Otto I. Whether this location designation is to be seen in connection with the early castle complex of Deutschlandsberg, which is located high on a rock spur to the west, is discussed, another view points to the fact that a complex near Ortisei is conceivable as the upper court nearby. The complex is seen as a bilingual dominion center. This bilingual name is seen as evidence of close Slavonic-Bavarian contacts . With the expansion of Deutschlandsberg Castle, the Nidrinhof lost its importance as the administrative center of the area, it is believed that it was used as a farm afterwards, before it was expanded into Schloss Frauenthal.
In 1267 the name "Vraundorf" (woman village) appears. In the Middle Ages there was a “Hof zu Ortisei” located there or near the St. Ulrich branch church . The present castle was expanded into a noble residence by Gall von Racknitz in 1542. It was given its present form in 1675 under Ferdinand Graf Zehentner, who presumably commissioned Jakob Schmerlaib with the renovation. Up until the 17th century the estate and the castle were also named after St. Ulrich. Count Zehentner was followed by the Kuenburger , the Mailegger and the Batthyány in 1700 . The castle chapel is dedicated to St. Joseph . After economic decline due to lavish administration and family disputes, the administrator of the brass factory was appointed curator of the estate in 1741. From 1812 to 1820 the castle experienced its heyday under its owner Moritz Graf von Fries , before it came to the Liechtenstein family in 1820 , to whom it still belongs to this day. This castle (like Hollenegg Castle) was bought by Prince Johann I Josef for his son Franz de Paula , the great-grandfather of the head of state of Liechtenstein Franz Josef II (who was born here in 1906 ) with the lordship of Deutschlandsberg-Hollenegg . The castle was restored in 1969 and 1970. Today there is a technical college for agriculture and the food industry.
description
The castle is a regular, three-storey four-wing building. There are three-storey pillar arcades in the inner courtyard . The coat of arms of Count Ferdinand Zehentner with an inscription is located above the rustikaportal in the inner courtyard.
The two-storey castle chapel is dedicated to St. Joseph . The stucco work , created around 1685, comes from the workshop of Alexander Serenio. The picture windows, also made in 1685, show depictions from the life of Mary .
literature
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 112 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria. An encyclopaedic collection of the Styrian fortifications and properties, which were endowed with various privileges. Graz 1961, Stiasny publishing house. P. 78.
- ↑ Werner Murgg: Castle ruins of Styria. In: Nikolaus Hofer (Ed.): Find reports from Austria. Material booklet series B volume (FÖMat B 2, 2009). Published by the Federal Monuments Office , Department for Ground Monuments . Berger Verlag, Vienna 2009. ISSN 1993-1263 . Footnote 3 on p. 17 with reference to: Andreas Bernhard: Brief overview of the history of the settlement of Deutschlandsberg Castle. Messages from the Styrian Castle Association MStBV. Volume 22, year 2004. ISSN 0490-9348 . P. 11.
- ^ Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria. An encyclopaedic collection of the Styrian fortifications and properties, which were endowed with various privileges. Graz 1961, Stiasny publishing house. P. 87.
- ^ Hermann Baltl, Fritz Lochner von Hüttenbach: Styria in the early Middle Ages. Early medieval names in Styria. Verlag Leykam, Graz 2004. ISBN 978-3-7011-7485-0 . P. 50.
- ^ Fritz Freiherr Lochner von Hüttenbach: Early name layers in the Eastern Alps. In: Ernst Eichler (Hrsg.): Problems of the older name layers. Leipzig Symposium November 21-22, 1989. In: Rolf Bergmann , Ulrich Obst, Rudolf Schützeichel , Jürgen Untermann (eds.): Contributions to name research , new series. Supplement 32. Carl Winter Universitätsverlag. Heidelberg 1991. ISSN 0522-6945 , ISBN 3-533-04360-6 . P. 160.
- ↑ Gunther Riedlsperger: Castles and mansions in the paradise of Styria, Deutschlandsberg district. Deutschlandsberg 1996, Simadruck publishing house. Pp. 100-108.
- ^ District topography, p. 94.
- ↑ a b c d Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 112 .
- ↑ Frauental Castle. www.austria-lexikon.at, accessed on August 4, 2012 .
- ^ Technical college for agriculture and food industry Schloss Frauenthal - St. Martin. (No longer available online.) Www.fs-schloss-frauenthal.at, archived from the original on June 27, 2013 ; Retrieved August 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Website of the technical school for agriculture and food industry Schloss Frauenthal - St. Martin. www.fs-schloss-frauenthal.at, accessed on August 4, 2012 .
- Entry via Schloss Frauental to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 49.1 ″ N , 15 ° 14 ′ 40 ″ E