Harbach Castle
The Harbach Castle is in the district of St. Peter on the eastern outskirts of Klagenfurt . The original mediaeval noblemen's seat was first mentioned in a document in 1213, later it was converted into a castle, and again between 1893 and 1962, and again considerably. Harbach Castle was used as a monastery by the Good Shepherd Women's Order from the end of the 19th century until 2002 , when it became the property of the Carinthian Diakonie , which has been based there ever since.
history
Harbach, in the east of the city, was a noble seat in the high Middle Ages . Little is known about the medieval building and its owner. The brothers Reimbotus and Hermannus de Horbach were mentioned in a document from Duke Bernhard von Spanheim in 1213 , and in 1303 a Heinrich von Harbach was named. When and by whom the original building was transformed into a castle is unknown. Only on the occasion of the sale by the court chamber procurator Josef Karl von Keller, who sold the property to Dr. Franz Rainer sold, the castle appears again in documents. Franz Rainer was raised to the nobility in 1755 and then named himself after the castle.
In 1886, Count Reinhard August zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen acquired Harbach Castle with the money he had redeemed from the sale of the Mayerling Castle , which later became famous, to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria . He sold it in 1889 to Baroness Maria Mayerhofer von Grünbühel, the chairwoman of the local Elisabethen Association. In 1890, the Elisabethen-Verein, which consisted mainly of aristocratic women and was committed to helping adolescent girls in need, asked the Good Shepherd Women's Order to come to Klagenfurt . On April 18, 1890, the sisters were re-established in Harbach, who from then on looked after both girls in need and girls who were difficult to educate. When the building soon proved to be too small, extensive additions and renovations were made from 1893 onwards. First, a wing was added to the north, which could be moved into in 1897. At the beginning of the 20th century, another building was built facing east and west. At its western end, the church wing was built from 1914 to 1918 and a monastery chapel was set up on its first floor .
After the First World War, further extensions were built at the east end . In 1925 a kindergarten and a school day nursery were opened. In 1936 a new school building was built; The elementary school, which had been one-class up until then, was expanded to become a three-class one and a technical school for home economics opened. During the Second World War , Harbach Castle was used by the National Socialists for a state boys' institution . The premises were not returned to the sisters until 1955. The original castle, now more of an "appendage" of the building complex, was increased from two to three storeys in 1962. A complete exterior restoration was carried out between 1976 and 1979. The facility was modernized in 2012/2013.
The monastery church
The church wing is on the first floor of the building at the west end and has an unusual floor plan in accordance with the rules of the order. The nave is intended for the young residents of the home, a kind of transept in the west on the north side is intended for secular church visitors, whereas the nuns prefer the south side. The table altar was positioned at the intersection of the nave and the “transept”. In 1968 the church interior dedicated to the heart was redesigned: white, smooth walls, plastered ceiling with wooden beams underneath .
During the restoration, August Veiter's old landscape fresco on the altar wall in the west was preserved. According to the patronage, it shows Christ with a visible heart in the middle of a landscape with palm trees, trees and sheep. At his side are Saints Augustine and Francis de Sales , while kneeling at his feet are the donors of the order, Johannes Eudes and the nun Rosa Virginia Pelletier .
In 1968, Karl Bauer created the glass paintings in the high-set windows, which also refer to the patronage of the order. A glass painting has been preserved from the old furnishings. It represents the coat of arms of Rainer von Harbach .
From the old furnishings there is also a Val Gardena statue from the 19th century and shows St. Joseph of Nazareth with child, as well as an oil painting from the middle of the 19th century, the motif of which is St. Mother Anna with the young Mary reading. The metal stations of the cross and the front paneling of the altar table are more recent. They were created by the Viennese artist Ernst Granegger in 1969. The church bell dates from 1741 and is perhaps the work of Marx Mathias Zechenter.
In the east above the main entrance is the simple walled organ gallery with a flat ceiling and plastered parapet .
Todays use
The Sisters of the Good Shepherd ran the girls' home in Harbach and the associated schools until 2002, when they sold the property to the Protestant foundation de La Tour , which belongs to the Carinthian Diakonie. After taking over the building, she looked after two girls' living communities in Harbach, and until 2014 a special education school and a special after-school care center for children and young people with special needs. In 2014 the school and the after-school care center were closed, instead there is now a Montessori school for grades 1 to 4, as well as a Montessori school for grades 4 to 8 on the premises. The administration of Diakonie Kärnten has also been housed in Harbach Castle since then. In 2004, a retirement home and nursing home was built in the property, which was moved to a new building in St. Peter in 2012. Harbach Castle was then rebuilt and is scheduled to reopen at the end of 2013.
See also
literature
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Klagenfurt city. St. Peter, Salzburg 1980, ISBN 3-900173-26-5 ( Austrian art monograph. Volume X), pp. 114–115 (reprinted in 1994, without ISBN).
- Gabriele Russwurm-Biró: Dehio manual Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 397.
- Erika Siegmund: Harbach. A noble seat near Klagenfurt. Trauner Drucke, Linz 1999, ISBN 3-85487-075-2 .
Web links
- Entry via Harbach Castle to Burgen-Austria
- The history of the Harbach monastery (diakonie-delatour.at)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erika Siegmund (ed.): Harbach - A noble seat near Klagenfurt , Klagenfurt 1999; Trauner Drucke, 4020 Linz; ISBN 3-85487-075-2
- ^ Website on Harbach Castle with mention of Count Leiningen as the owner
- ↑ Hartwagner 1980, p. 114.
- ↑ De la Tour takes over Harbach Monastery ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . epd news (from August 7, 2002)
- ↑ Harbach House on diakonie-delatour.at (accessed on July 2, 2013)
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 18 ″ N , 14 ° 20 ′ 32 ″ E