Grafenegg Castle (Liezen)
The Grafenegg Castle was originally west of the town Liezen in Styria located Renaissance chateau dating from around 1600, which was canceled 1,982th
history
The prerequisites for the construction of the castle go back to Georg Rebl, the governor of Strechau Castle, who had acquired the necessary land, including the Grafenschwaig farm, from 1587. When Rebl had to leave the country as a Protestant in the course of the Counter Reformation , the property was bought in 1601 by the governor of Selva, Georg Mayer, who raised it to the Grafeneck aristocratic estate and built the palace. In 1612 the property was passed on to the lawyer Dr. Gallus Brunner sold. At that time the castle consisted of an angular structure, the facade of which was flanked on the valley side by two cornered oriel buildings.
In 1892 the area was acquired by the Liezen-based industrialist Nikolaus Dumba to round off his hunting area and expanded it historically. From 1905 it served as a home for various social institutions. Expropriated in 1938, it fell to the Liezen district administration in 1945. Although the celebrations on the occasion of Liezen's town elevation had still taken place in the representative rooms in 1947, it was finally demolished in 1982 after a changeable fate - during the ongoing process of preservation of the listed buildings. Today's Am Grafenegg housing estate was built in its place .
literature
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Polzer and Wolfgang Flecker: Nicolaus Dumba, hunter and patron. In: Liezen im Zeitwandel. Episode 7, September 2002.
Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 14.9 ″ N , 14 ° 13 ′ 10.3 ″ E