Lustbühel Castle

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Lustbühel Castle
Side view

The Lustbühel Castle is a castle in the ninth Grazer district Walt village . It is under monument protection ( list entry ).

History and design

The early baroque castle is located on the Grazer Lustbühel , where Bühel means hill . Before it was built, there was an estate in this place. It was built in the first half of the 17th century and made a noble residence. An exact date is no longer available today. After renovations in the first half of the 18th century, in the 19th century and in 1907, the castle was given a new look thanks to historicist building elements.

The building shows late historical - neo-Gothic styles. The stepped gables, the framework portal and the tower crowned with battlements in the southeast are special . The wrought-iron window grilles also date from 1907. Lustbühel Castle has a two-aisled vestibule with neo-Romanesque marble round pillars. The sandstone warrior busts on the gate pillars date from the early 18th century.

From 1947 the youth welfare office in Graz owned the castle and set up a toddler and children's rest home for 3 to 6 year old children. Today a kindergarten is housed in the premises.

literature

  • Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces Graz, Leibnitz and West Styria . Birken, Vienna 1967, ISBN 3-85030-028-5 , p. 74-75 .
  • Karl A. Kubinzky, Astrid M. Wentner: Grazer street names. Origin and meaning . Leykam, Graz 1996, ISBN 3-7011-7336-2 , pp. 257 .
  • Horst Schweigert: DEHIO Graz . Schroll, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7031-0475-9 , p. 215 .

Web links

Commons : Lustbühel Palace, Graz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kubintzky, Wentner: Grazerstraße name. P. 257.
  2. ↑ Veronika Zobel: Child welfare has been at the center of the work of the Graz Youth Welfare Office for 95 years: Reason enough to look back and celebrate! 2012, p. 3 ( PDF ). PDF ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.graz.at
  3. ^ Schweigert: Dehio Graz. P. 215.

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 12.9 ″  N , 15 ° 29 ′ 46.6 ″  E