Möchling Castle
The Möchling Castle in the town of Galicia was 1123-1770 owned by the pin St.Paul im Lavanttal and the seat of the caregiver .
description
The core of the late medieval building was rebuilt in baroque style after a fire in 1666 . The building consists of two residential floors and an original storage floor with a gable roof . The facades are structured by plaster decor with flat pilaster strips interrupted by continuous, slightly profiled cornices . The main portal on the courtyard side has wide, stone walls and a profiled roof. On the north-east facade, a beveled round arch portal from the 16th century provides access to the cellar. Some windows have wrought iron window baskets from the 16th century. On the ground floor there is a transverse, two-aisled entrance hall with a small cross vault supported by a rectangular central pillar . The ballroom on the first floor has an artistically valuable stucco ceiling . The ceiling painting in the middle consists of depictions that can hardly be interpreted and several coats of arms, including that of Abbot Albert Reichard (1677–1727). The other eight cartouche-shaped small ceiling paintings with depictions from the life of Hildegard von Stein are framed by rich stucco decoration, which is attributed to the brothers Gabriel and Johann Peter Wittini.
See also
literature
- Georg Dehio : Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 555.
- Wilhelm Deuer: Jauntal cultural hikes. An art-historical companion through the Völkermarkt district. Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85366-977-8 , p. 48.
Web links
- Entry via Möchling Castle to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 46 ° 35 ′ 20.6 " N , 14 ° 31 ′ 4.1" E