Kleinkainach Castle
Kleinkainach Castle (also Saurausches Castle , Neu Kainach or Ney Kainach ) was a castle near Alt-Kainach Castle in the settlement area of Kleinkainach, Bärnbach in the Voitsberg district , Styria .
architecture
The medieval castle Kleinkainach was built in 1318 and was located about 200 meters northeast of the castle Alt-Kainach . With Georg Matthäus Vischer, 1681, the building is basically an L-shaped building with corner towers and was rebuilt as Neu Kainach from 1549 to 1565, in 1573 a coat of arms stone was attached above the gate.
history
In 1318 the Holleneggers had a meierhof transformed into a noble residence, then the Kainach family who made the residence the administrative center of the Kleinkainach lordship of the same name. When the inheritance was divided in 1410, the "ancestral estate" Kleinkainach went to Albrecht von Kainach. The castle burned down several times in the 16th century and was last rebuilt in 1548 under Helfenreich von Kainach. Christoph the Younger von Kainach handed over the residence to his daughter Amalia and her husband Ehrenreich von Saurau. From then on it was only called the “Saurausche Castle”. In 1632 Veit Sigmund von Herberstein owned the castle and in 1640 the castle came under the rule of Wagensberg, later united with Greißenegg and Obervoitsberg . In 1829, 29 subject goods belonged to the castle. In 1840 the castle disappeared without a trace, it was probably demolished in 1787. On a lithograph by Karl Reichert von Alt Kainach you can see a two-story ruin in the background. According to tradition, the building material was used to expand Greißenegg Castle.
legend
Two loaves of bread - one farm
A little south of the towering Alt-Kainach Castle, which is still inhabited, was the old Klein-Kainach Castle, also known as the Holleneckerhof. A hundred years ago there were still remains of the wall, which have also disappeared today. Close by - on the street - is the blacksmith's farmhouse. In the front building there used to be a white marble table about 95 centimeters high; Two loaves of bread, each 45 centimeters in diameter and about 3 ½ centimeters high, had been neatly chiseled out of the tabletop. The following is told about the creation of this strange stone table:
“ There was once a terrible famine in this area, so that many people died miserably. When the need became extremely acute, the owner of the house sold his property for two loaves of bread just to save his bare life. - The table with the carved stone loaves of bread should remind posterity of this terrible time of need. In 1869 the house burned down and the table cracked in the heat. The rubble was walled in in the new building. "
literature
- History and topography of the Voitsberg district; Volume 2 of the district lexicon, Graz 2011
- What the homeland tells, the West Styria, the Kainach, Sulm and Laßnitztal. Edited by Franz Brauner. Styrian home books. Graz 1953.
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 39 ″ N , 15 ° 7 ′ 50.3 ″ E