Großkirchheim Castle
The United Schloss Kirchheim in Döllach in the town of Großkirchheim is a double lock system.
history
In 1150 a "locus Chyrichaim" was first mentioned in a document. In 1157 Reginher von Steierberg and his wife Petrissa donated their estate "apud Chyrichaim" to the Admont Monastery. In the Peace of Pusarnitz in 1460 the estate went to the Habsburgs . With the flourishing of precious metal mining at the end of the 15th century, the “Kirchheimegg” castle served the mountain judge as the official residence. Melchior Putz, a trade from Augsburg, had the existing building rebuilt around 1550 and began building the southern castle in 1561, which was completed after 1576, the year on the coat of arms stone to the left of the main portal. When the Putz family went bankrupt, the two castles came into the possession of Martin Strasser von Neudegg and later to Matthias Jenner von Vergutz. From 1680 to 1770 the castles belonged to the Fromiller family. In the 19th century, the northern castle was sold, was temporarily used as a brewery and finally came into the possession of the community. The southern castle was bought by Josef Aicher von Aichenegg in 1869. When it was no longer permanently inhabited, it served as emergency accommodation for around 200 people for a while after the floods in 1935. In 1956, a local history and gold mining museum was set up by the former owner in the southern castle, which no longer exists. The northern castle is owned by Maria Hauser-Sauper and is made available for cultural events.
Building description
The palace complex from the 16th century consists of two three-storey tracts connected by courtyard walls.
The larger south building is covered with a half-hip roof. The building had a crane elevator as it also served as a box building and material warehouse. On the west side there are three more storey-wise walled toilets. A coffered ceiling from the main hall of the castle, carved around 1560, is now owned by Schloss Frauenstein . Caspar von Radmannsdorf's coat of arms tombstone from the 15th century is attached to the courtyard wall to the northwest.
The north building is the older part and is also called "Körberschlößl", "Putzenschlößl" or "Bräuhaus". The wing with a hipped roof has two turret-like round oriels over corbels with conical roofs at the corners of the north side. The framed round arch portal has a sgraffito frame . The windows on the top floor and the eastern side front are framed in late Gothic style. The ground floor rooms are vaulted, in the vestibule there is a barrel vault with stucco rib network, in the eastern corner there is a four-bay vault with stucco rib windows. The basement was used for commercial purposes, the paneled rooms on the upper floor for stately residential purposes.
In the courtyard, the rest of a Lutheran prayer house is difficult to see. The prayer house, which was provided with an outside pulpit, was built at the instigation of the Putz family and destroyed in 1600 by the Counter-Reformation commission of Seckau Prince-Bishop Martin Brenner .
See also
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 84.
- Wilhelm Deuer: Castles and palaces in Carinthia. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0307-6 , p. 181 f.
- Alexander Hanisch-Wolfram: In the footsteps of the Protestants in Carinthia. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-7084-0392-2 , p. 183 f.
- Barbara Kienzel, Wilhelm Deuer: Renaissance in Carinthia. Verlag Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 3-85378-438-0 , pp. 82, 197 f.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 29.9 " N , 12 ° 53 ′ 34.9" E