Kainberg Castle

Kainberg Castle, 2018

Kainberg Castle above Kumberg

The Kainberg castle located in the village Kumberg in Styria . The history of the property goes back to the beginning of the 13th century and that of the present castle to the end of the 16th century. It has been owned by the Wimpffen family since 1841 .

Geographical location

The castle is located a little out of the way, north of the center of Kumberg on Schloß-Kainberg-Weg 6. It stands there on a steep hill that forms the foothills of a ridge that runs from the Schöckl in a south-easterly direction.

history

Kainberg Castle, near Vischer 1661

Kainberg Castle, Kumberg, lith. JF Kaiser, around 1830

At the site of today's castle, the first fortification was probably built at the beginning of the 13th century. This was the free property of a family of servants subordinate to the Seckau monastery. In 1218 an Otto von Chunperch is mentioned who was sitting in the fortified courtyard. The property remained in his possession of the von Kainberg family for over 300 years and passed to Gilg von Saurau in 1547. After Melchior Huber had owned the noble farm for two months in 1570, the farm came to Otto VI von Ratmannsdorf. He had it expanded and converted into a Renaissance castle between 1570 and 1575 . His daughter had to leave Styria in 1629 because of her Protestant faith. So the castle came to Siegmund Friedrich Freiherr von Gleispach. His son sold it to the Seckau monastery in 1662, but took it back a year later because the purchase price had not been paid.

In 1685 the residence came into the possession of Georg Siegmund Count Dietrichstein. It was followed by other owners before it came to Count Franz Karl Eduard von Wimpffen in 1841 . The Wimpffen family still lives in the castle today.

architecture

The three-storey building forms a regular square which includes a rectangular, three-storey arcade courtyard . The arcades surround the courtyard on three sides and were largely glazed in the 19th century. There are square corner towers with pyramid roofs at the four corners of the building . In the central part of the western wing there is a mighty clock and bell tower with a roof crowned by a lantern . In this tower there is a small chapel dedicated to the three wise men. In the south is the arched entrance gate.

In the past, the castle was probably protected by a defensive wall that is no longer in existence and a moat. The square tower built in the southwest corner of the building no longer exists either. A bastion in the south-east was transformed into a garden.

The northern wing dates from the 15th century and is the oldest part of the building. Large parts of the original interior are still on the upper floors. Some rooms have neo-baroque stucco ceilings . In a corner room there is a coffered ceiling with painted grain from the Renaissance and an oven from the 18th century. The great hall of the castle, with deciduous Bandelwerk decorated -Stuck from the second quarter of the 18th century. Furthermore, there is an empire stove erected around 1800 in the hall .

swell

• Entry via Kainberg to Burgen-Austria
• Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Graz . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , pp. 203 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Kainberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} entry about Kainberg on Burgen-Austria
2. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Graz . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , pp. 203 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 10 ′ 25.9 ″  N , 15 ° 31 ′ 50 ″  E