Leonstain Castle
Leonstain Castle is a castle in the northern part of the municipality of Pörtschach am Wörthersee on the main street of the health resort. It's house number 228.
Description and history
The elongated, subdivided building with two storeys originates in the core from the 16th century and was probably the Meierhof of Leonstein Castle . Renovations in the 19th and 20th centuries were adapted to the Renaissance building . The property is privately owned by the Neuscheller family and is now run as the “Schloss Leonstain” hotel. The five or six-axis structure encloses a small inner courtyard with a fountain and Renaissance lions. Upstairs is a circumferential, on corbels Supported out portico; a room on the upper floor presents itself with profiled frame stucco on its flat ceiling and was created in 1598. On the west wing, a roofed corner balcony with an onion helmet from 1937 attracts attention. The wing facing the street presents itself with the entrance gate, above you can see the Leonstain coat of arms fresco and the name 1598. The additions on the east side are modern; its facade structure with arcades on renaissance columns date from 1956 and 1972. The eastern porch with roof turret originated in 1964 and a stylistically adapted extension on the northeast corner was built in 1956.
In the outer courtyard there is a monument to Johannes Brahms , in memory of the artist's multiple stays in Pörtschach. It was created in 1907 by Berta Kupelwieser , Karl Kupelwieser's wife .
See also
literature
- DEHIO Carinthia - topographical inventory of monuments. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 637–639
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Coordinates: 46 ° 38 '12 " N , 14 ° 8' 17.2" E