Gilgenbühel Castle

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Gilgenbühel Castle after Georg Matthäus Vischer 1681 in Topographia Ducatus Stiriae

Gilgenbühel Castle was a castle in today's municipality of Mooskirchen in the Voitsberg district in western Styria . Its history can be traced back to the second half of the 16th century. During its existence, the castle was owned by several noble families before it was demolished at the end of the 18th century.

location

According to Robert Baravalle, the castle was located in the northwest of today's municipality of Mooskirchen, on the plain near the village of Stögersdorf at the site of today's farm with the vulgar name Schwabel. According to the topography of the Voitsberg district published by the Styrian State Archives , the castle was probably located on the site of today's farm with the vulgar name Schlosswastl at the address Stögersdorf No. 4, today's address Vogelbichl No. 2.

history

The castle was built around 1580 or soon afterwards by Hans Gilgenberger, who had received a share of the Winterhof rule through marriage to Rosine, the daughter of Hans Prantner, and became a member of the Styrian Landsmannschaft on December 18, 1596. Hans's son, Wolf Sigmund Gilgenberger, exchanged the property with Hans Friedrich von Pranckh for his Prankherhof in Graz in 1629 .

Hans Friedrich von Pranckh gave the castle together with the fishing rights in the Kainach to Sigmund Kugelmann von Edenfels on December 19, 1630. Wolf Rudolf von Saurau bought the estate on March 21, 1658 from Sigmund's son Georg Sebastian Kugelmann. Gilgenbühel came to Gottfridt Graf Breuner through Isabella von Saurau in 1669 . The owner of Winterhof Castle, Johann Caspar von Kellersperg, bought the property on May 6, 1670, which in turn resulted in Count Nikolaus Lodron on March 9, 1676 . According to another source, from 1668 Johann Karl von Saurau was in the possession of Gilgenbühel, who passed the estate to Johann Caspar von Kellersperg in 1675 and it only came into the possession of Count Lodron in 1680. The Count Lodron united the property with his rule Winterhof. After the year 1710, the Galler came into possession of the entire rule Winterhof, the property Gilgenbühel was converted to a farm. It was later abandoned and left to decay before being demolished at the end of the 18th century. Remnants of the cellar vault were still there until the middle of the 19th century.

description

The later castle is probably originally a farm, which Hans Gilgenberger expanded into a noble residence. The two-story building had a rectangular floor plan and had a small tower.

Subjects in five offices, including a small Dominical property, belonged to the castle .

literature

  • Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Graz 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 546 .
  • Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 62 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Graz 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 546 .
  2. ^ A b c d e Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 62 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 59 ′ 4.5 ″  N , 15 ° 15 ′ 30.9 ″  E