Hainfeld Castle
| Hainfeld Castle | ||
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 Hainfeld Castle 2008 |
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| Creation time : | 13th century (converted into a moated castle in the 16th century) | |
| Place: | Leitersdorf | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 56 '48 " N , 15 ° 55' 39.9" E | |
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The Hainfeld Castle is the largest surge of Styria . It is located in the municipality of Feldbach in Austria .
history
The castle, first mentioned in 1275, was built on the site of a fortification . The Lords of Hainfeld are mentioned for the first time in 1305 as feudal takers of the Wildoners on the nearby Riegersburg . In 1332 the Edelhof came to Ulrich Winkler by marriage. The Winkler family replaced the small moated castle in the second half of the 16th century with a fortified four-wing Renaissance castle, the largest moated castle in Styria. His task was to protect the Raab Valley, which is open to the east, from invasions by the Hungarians. The farm was laid out so large that in case of danger it could accommodate as many farmers in the area as possible.
After the death of the minor Wilhelm Winkler around 1550, numerous heirs made claims on Hainfeld. In 1573, Wolf Zwickl, who had acquired a quarter of the property, managed to unite it entirely in his own hands. Through his son's widow, who was married to a Count Khiesl, Hainfeld came into the possession of his family, Count Zwickl called Khiesl . During the Hungarian invasion of 1605, the castle did not suffer any major damage. In 1690 Countess Maria Eleonore Khiesl brought Hainfeld into her marriage to Leopold Josef Graf Orsini-Rosenberg. He sold it to Wenzel Carl Graf Purgstall in 1719. In 1773 the chapel was moved to the north wing and the old castle chapel in the middle of the courtyard was demolished and the main portal redesigned. In 1835 the castle was inherited from Countess Johanna Anna Purgstall to her adoptive son, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall . In 2014 the castle was sold by an heiress.
The renovation of the listed building turned out to be complicated. In the course of this, the moat, which had dried out for a long time, was restored and restored. Extensive renovation work is necessary on the roof surfaces, in particular to avoid damaging the stucco ceilings . The once rich furnishings of paintings and furniture were largely lost by the Russian occupation; most recently, the picture gallery with 58 pictures of Styrian nobles by the Neapolitan painter Gennaro Basili from 1762 was auctioned in the Viennese art trade in 2012. There is also a Chinese room with paper pictures in metal Rococo frames, a cabinet with Dutch faience panels and painted paper wallpapers, Rococo and Empire stoves, and paintings and acanthus stucco ceilings from the late 17th century. The castle archive is now in the Styrian State Archive in Graz.
Hainfeld Castle, Kuwasseg 1830
Hainfeld Castle and Riegersburg from the Mühldorfer Steinberg
Hainfeld Castle from the south
Hainfeld Castle 2012
literature
- Basil Hall : Hainfeld Castle, or: A Winter in Styria . Under the eyes of the author from d. Engl. Transl. by Minna Herthum. Berlin: Eichler, 1836. (Original version on archive.org )
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu : Carmilla (Novelle), In: In a Glass Darkly . 1872. (English original version on gutenberg.org , German translation on mobileread.com )
Web links
- Federal Monuments Office, history of Hainfeld Castle
- Entry via Hainfeld to Burgen-Austria