Krupa Castle
The Krupa Castle ( German : Schloss Krupp ) is an abandoned castle near the village of Krupa in the Bela Krajina region in Slovenia . It was believed to have stood about 350 meters from the source of the Krupa River east of the village of Stranska vas as early as the end of the 12th century .
history
The castle was originally owned by the Croatian noble family Babonić. These were first mentioned in 1352 as the noble family "von der Crup". These were the ancestors of the Counts Ursini-Blagaj , who are mentioned in Slovenian-Croatian history at the end of the 12th century. The castle does not appear in documents until 1427 as castrum Cruppa .
The other owners in chronologically ascending order were:
| from | to | owner | Taking possession: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle of the 14th century | Ortenburger | through marriage of Ana von Crup to Count Otto von Ortenburg | |
| 1418 | Count of Cilli | After the Ortenburgers died out in 1418, the property fell to the Counts of Cilli by contract; In 1439 the castle was destroyed by Jan Vitovec during the war with the Habsburgs | |
| End of 15th century | Andreas von Hohenwart ( Cillier and Möttlinger rulers) | by inheritance (cousin of the Ortenburgers), ruler of Cilli | |
| 1483 | 1704 | Count Burgstall | by marriage of Moritz from Postal with Margaret of Hohenwart (the only child of Andreas Hohenwart), remodeling, obtained drawing of Valvasor , further holding in the loading krajina: lock Pusti Gradac , lock Gradac , castle Krasinec and Burg Pobrežje (Freyenthurn); Krupa Castle was captured and robbed by the Turks in a surprise attack on June 23, 1565 when the drawbridge was lowered by carelessness |
| Johann Michael Androk or Androch | |||
| 1710 | Count Franz Adam Lamberg | through lease | |
| 1723 | Count Karl Henrik Wazenberg | ||
| 1723 | Franz Bernard Lamberg | by purchase | |
| 1737 | Peter Paul by Bonazzi | by purchase | |
| 1772 or 1773 | Baroness Franziska Auersperg born. Apple butterfly (Bonazzi) | by inheritance | |
| 1904 | The Apfaltrer family | also owned by the Pobrežje Castle (Freyenthurn) | |
| 1904 | Danijel Makar (hotel owner in Metlika ) | bought together with Julij Macele (Mazelle) (postmaster in Gradac) from Baron Artur Apfaltrer | |
| 1914 | Zemljiška Banka Prague | ||
| 1918 | Brothers Anton Zurc (Črnomelj) and Ivan Zurc (Semič) | by purchase, both dealers, in the same year they are taken over by their son Josip Zurc (Semič) |
From 1816 to 1850 the seat of the "district administration" ( Slovene : okrajna gosposka ) was housed in the castle . After the administration was moved to Črnomelj and the court and tax authority to Metlika , the castle slowly lost its importance. It was also no longer maintained. Plans to house an agricultural school in it were not implemented.
The castle was burned down in the summer of 1942 at the beginning of the harvest by partisans of the People's Liberation Army for ideological reasons (similar to the Auersperger Soteska Castle in the Dolenjska / Suha krajina region near Dolenjske Toplice ), who saw it as a symbol of the oppression of the rural population. Of course, this also prevented the Italian occupiers from using the facility as a base.
The lock burned slowly for two whole weeks. The remains were used as building material by the local population. The same happened to the castle church of St. Ana, in which a treasure allegedly buried there was initially searched for. During the unprofessional excavations, the church tilted and was then blown up. Their rubble was also used as building material. The remaining farm buildings of the castle were used by the partisans as workshops (e.g. smithy) after the German October offensive in 1943. After the war these were also destroyed. Only a large harp on stone pedestals and the granary remained. The harp could still be admired in 1977, today only the granary still exists.
description
The Krupa Castle originally consisted of a pentagonal building with four angular defense towers . It was later converted into a square, single-storey fortress with an arcaded courtyard . It was surrounded by a ditch that could be filled with water by pump from the Krupa River, right next to the mill below the castle. It also had a drawbridge for protection . In the right tower near the bend on the old road to Gradac was a deep cellar including a dungeon . Interestingly, there was an approximately 1.5-kilometer-long underground escape route into the “Log” forest with an exit into the deep “Bezgovica” gorge directly on the shortcut between Vinji vrh and Klošter (district of Gradac).
The church of St. Boštjan (German: Sebastian ), 150 meters away, belonged to the castle and was located on the road to the above-mentioned castle mill. In 1874 this crumbling church was converted into the Gothic St. Ana Church. There were three Burgstaller graves near the altar with grave tablets in German. These tablets are now kept in the Martinskirche of the Weißkrainer Regional Museum in Metlika.
The chateau's free float included estates in Krašnji vrh, Bojanja vas, Rožna dolina, Ručentna vas, Vojna vas, Zorenci, Brdarci, Mala Lahinja, Kneževina, Perudina, Zilje, Podklanec near Vinica as well as around half of the Uskok village Gornji and Vrosliniči Bojavanci . The other half belonged to the Pobrežje (Freyenthurn) castle .
The forest on both sides of the Krupa River reached directly to the castle as far as Vranoviči. There was also extensive arable land and orchards in the area, fields stretched from Stranska vas to Log forest between the roads to Črnomelj and Gradac. The property of about 100 hectares was nationalized in the spring of 1946 and divided between small farmers and the Črnomelj cooperative, which got 30 hectares.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ivan Jakič, Slovenski gradovi (German: The Slovene Palaces and Castles), p. 176 f., Državna Založba Slovenije, 1997
- ↑ Ivan Simonič: degree Krupa v Beli krajini (German: Castle Krupa in Bela Krajina). In: Kronika - Časopis za slovensko krajevno zgodovino (German: Chronik - Journal of Slovene Local History), 25, pp. 198 ff, Ljubljana 1977.
Coordinates: 45 ° 37 ′ 53.9 ″ N , 15 ° 13 ′ 32.5 ″ E