Kornberg Castle

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Kornberg Castle

Kornberg Castle is located near Dörfl (municipality of Riegersburg ), in south-east Austria in Styria .

history

Kornberg Castle, around 1681
Kornberg Castle, around 1830

Kornberger

Kornberg Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1284. It was built by the Lords of Kornberg - on behalf of the Knights of Riegersburg-Wildon - to secure access to the Riegersburg . The strategically favorable, elevated castle was additionally secured by a fortification wall. It originally served as a residence not closed , but as a fortified structure . In the course of securing the border region against Hungary , numerous colonists from Lower Austria were settled and castles were founded in the 12th century .

Lords of Trench

For financial reasons, the castle had to be sold to the Lords of Walsee . These gave the castle on in 1328 as an after-fief to the noble lords and knights of Graben . As a result, Kornberg came into their possession as an allod and thus established the Kornberg line of the family. The Von Graben, Friedrich I. von Graben , were able to further expand the fortifications. In 1377 he donated the Kornberg Palace Chapel, which was consecrated to St. Andrew. Subsequently, Kornberg served as the administrative seat of the property scattered in Eastern Styria. After the death of Andrä von Graben in 1556 and the extinction of this line, the castle fell to the sons of Andras' sister Anna von Graben , the lords of Stadl, after many years of inheritance disputes .

Lords of Stadl

In the course of the inheritance disputes, the financial means were lacking to maintain the building stock. It was only after the 25-year-old Hans Rudolf von Stadl married the 66-year-old owner of the Riegersburg, Katharina Elisabeth Freifrau von Galler , that the citadel could be converted into a residential palace in the 16th and 17th centuries. In the course of this expansion, the Andreas chapel was also magnificently rebuilt, which was destroyed in the 16th century. The von Stadl owned the castle until 1825.

Bardeau

After brief ownership by the House of Liechtenstein (on Riegersburg), ownership passed to Charles Francois Bardeau in 1871. Born in France, Bardeau had become rich with trading companies and shipyards in Trieste. In 1911 his family was elevated to the status of Austrian count by Emperor Franz Joseph. Bardeau had the castle furnished in a homely manner and restored in the style of the time. The Counts of Bardeau are the owners of the facility to date.

Today's two-storey palace complex with outbuildings contains a renaissance inner courtyard that is well worth seeing and reinforced with four towers.

Todays use

The palace complex and outbuildings are privately owned and are used primarily for cultural and tourist purposes today. The castle houses a restaurant and a handicraft shop and has around 400 square meters of exhibition space on the ground floor, which is used annually for an oriental carpet exhibition as well as for a large Easter and Christmas exhibition. The house of the region , housed in an adjoining building, serves as a venue for courses and seminars.

Kornberg Castle is part of Schlösserstraße .

Individual evidence

  1. The watering place Gleichenberg and its surroundings: a guide for Curgäste, Volume 2, page 317; by Wilhelm Wenzel Prášil

Web links

Commons : Schloss Kornberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 51.7 "  N , 15 ° 52 ′ 38.4"  E