Mittertrixen Castle

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Mittertrixen Castle, view from the north (2011)
Mittertrixen Castle ruins (2011)

The Castle Mittertrixen is located in the settlement area of the village of the same name in the municipality of Völkermarkt in Carinthia . The late baroque building is located below the Mittertrixen castle ruins , of which only a few remains of the wall are left today. The castle is a listed building .

history

Evidence for a property in Trixen goes back to the 9th century. Up until the 14th century, however, no distinction was made between the castle complexes Ober-, Mitter- and Niedertrixen. Mittertrixen was first mentioned as an independent complex around 1322 when the ducal estate came to the widow of Count Hermann von Heunburg. The Trixen family died out in 1261. The feudal domination was at that time still the pen Gurk exercised, but soon came in country manor possession. Other fiefs of the castle in the 14th century were among others the Pfannberger and the Aufensteiner .

In 1460 the von Hengsbach family acquired the rule. Around 1500 she had a first building erected at the foot of the castle hill, which probably initially served as a farmyard. After Siegmund von Hengspach's death, Mittertrixen was sold around 1597 to Siegmund von Spangenstein, who also owned Waisenberg . From 1641 on, the owners changed frequently, until in 1742 Johann Moritz Graf Christalnigg acquired the rule and united it with Waisenberg and Spangenberg. Count Leopold Christallnigg had Mittertrixen expanded to its present form in 1769/1770, incorporating some older components. The castle was left to decay. In the 19th century until 1914 the palace complex served as a cavalry barracks. The property was owned by the Christallnigg family until 1949 .

Building description

The remains of the old castle are on a wooded, conical hill in the middle of the Trixen valley. The castle is badly dilapidated and overgrown, but some remains of the wall are still clearly visible from afar. The rest of the outer wall of the keep has been preserved up to the second floor, some gothic profiled portals and windows as well as a groin vault can be seen.

At the foot of the hill, south of the castle ruins, lies Mittertrixen Castle, a two-storey, four-winged building around an arcade courtyard , which was built in late Baroque style using the late Gothic components of its predecessor. The castle has a gable roof. In the middle of the north-south facing main facade, the building has an unadorned triangular gable. The shoulder arch portal and other parts of the west wing come from the late medieval predecessor building. The basement of the castle has plaster blocks and is separated from the upper floor by a cordon cornice . The upper floor is structured by pilaster strips and is closed off by an eaves cornice with a hollow.

In the rectangular courtyard are located on three sides korbbogige pillared arcades . On the nine-axis south facade, the arcades extend over both floors; on the west and east tract, four arcades in the northern section are followed by a narrower arcade on the ground floor and three more on the staircase. Most of the rooms on the ground floor of the building, which has a two-storey basement, have barrel vaults with lancet caps or groin vaults. On the upper floor there is a coffered ceiling from the 16th century and remains of late baroque stucco in three rooms .

To the south of the building complex there is a large garden which is enclosed with quarry stone walls .

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Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′ 50.5 ″  N , 14 ° 34 ′ 59.9 ″  E