Hallegg Castle
Hallegg Castle is a castle in the northwest of the Carinthian state capital Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, which essentially dates back to the 16th century . It stands on a mountainside sloping to the east.
history
The first documented mention of Hallegg comes from 1213, when the castle of ministerials Gerhardus and Albertus de Haileke , ancestors of the family Hallegg was called. At the end of the 13th century, Heidenreich Ottlin and Albert, ducal ministerials, were named as owners. In 1433 Siegmund Roggendorfer was enfeoffed with Hallegg, in 1485 Konrad Färber .
In 1535, Hallegg was acquired by Christoph Welzer . His family arranged for the castle to be redesigned into a palace; it was first rebuilt by Moritz Welzer in 1546 and enlarged by Viktor Welzer in 1576. The castle remained in the possession of the Welser family until the 19th century, when it passed to the Goëss family and then changed hands frequently. Restorations took place in 1929 (repair), 1953/54 (inner courtyard) and 1996 (exterior restoration). Today the castle is privately owned by the Helmigk family.
Building description
Hallegg Castle is a large, irregular building. The building is castle-like, the wings are around two inner courtyards. The facades are unadorned, the rows of windows irregular.
In the west of the complex there is a representative residential wing with a high hipped roof . The wing was built under Viktor Welzer. In the barrel-vaulted knight's hall on the first floor there is a marble inscription plaque according to which Viktor Welzer and Eberstein and Hallegg and Lemberg and his wife Elisabeth Khevenhüller had the wing built. The couple had already built Welzenegg Castle . The two-storey arcade courtyard adjoins it to the east . In the arches there are sgraffiti which are dated to 1547 and show, among other things, the coats of arms of the Welzer and Khevenhüller families, as well as the year 1213. The courtyard forms an irregular, elongated pentagon. To the east, an arched, arched entrance leads into the south-east wing of the castle, which was probably built under Moritz Welzer. On the north side of the arcade courtyard lies the medieval core of the complex, to which a gate tower was added on the north side under Moritz Welzer. To the northeast of this is the second inner courtyard, which is bordered to the north and east by three- story arcades . At the northeast corner of the courtyard is the chapel tower supported by consoles . The chapel is consecrated to St. Francis and was first mentioned in 1616. The frescoes in the chapel from 1749 have not been preserved.
See also
literature
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Klagenfurt city. (= Austrian Art Monograph , Volume X). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg (reprint 1994, without ISBN), page 108 ff.
- Dehio Handbook Carinthia. 2nd Edition. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-7031-0522-4 , page 214 f.
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Hallegg to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 46 ° 38 ′ 56 ″ N , 14 ° 14 ′ 24 ″ E