Gayenhofen Castle
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 Gayenhofen Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Bludenz Castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1222 to 1245 | |
| Place: | Bludenz | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 9 '27 " N , 9 ° 49' 14" E | |
| Height: | 588 m above sea level A. | |
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The Gayenhofen Castle is located in the building ensemble with the church of St. Lawrence dominates over the city Bludenz (Vorarlberg). It is a successor to the castle Bludenz.
history
The Counts of Werdenberg built a castle complex between 1222 and 1245 as the center of the Counts- Werdenberg -Heiligenberg rule and the Bludenz rule. Bludenz was a fortified city in Vorarlberg in the Middle Ages, alongside Bregenz and Feldkirch .
Count Albrecht III lived in its walls from 1377/78 to 1418 . from Werdenberg-Heiligenberg . In 1491 the castle was destroyed by fire.
From 1745 to 1752 Johann Caspar Bagnato built a new building using the medieval structure. Baron Franz Andreas von Sternbach (1675–1755) gave the newly built castle the name Gayenhofen and thus created the castle on the site of the medieval castle of Bludenz.
In 1936 the city of Bludenz bought the castle and handed it over to the state of Vorarlberg in 1959.
Between 1960 and 1963 the castle was rebuilt again. The north wing was demolished, the square inner courtyard, which had been closed until then, was opened and the castle was adapted on October 26, 1963 to become the official building of the Bludenz district authority .
architecture
It is a three-storey palace complex with a strictly rectangular floor plan with a city-side view front and a risalit-like main wing over the western and eastern narrow front. This building is one of the few classicist palace buildings in Austria outside of Vienna.
literature
- Alois Niederstätter : The Vorarlberg castles . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7030-0953-2 , pp. 34–37.
- Manfred Tschaikner : Gayenhofen Castle in Bludenz - an invention of the 19th century . In: Bludenzer Geschichtsblätter , Heft 93 (2009), pp. 3–29. ( PDF )
Web links
- Entry via Bludenz - Gayenhofen on Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Bludenz reading book, by Manfred Tschaikner ISBN 978-3-901325-46-5
- ^ History of the District Commission Bludenz