Mokritz Castle

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Mokritz Castle
entrance
entrance
Castle courtyard
Castle courtyard

Mokritz Castle (Mokrice Castle) is located in Slovenia on a hill at the foot of the Gorjanci Hills ( Žumberak Mountains ), which slopes down into the Save Valley, in the border area with Croatia near the place Jesenice na Dolenjskem near Brežice . The medieval castle, first mentioned in a document in 1444, was rebuilt in the 16th century. The result was a castle with four different wings that enclose an irregular four-sided arcaded courtyard. The castle complex is protected by protruding round towers. In the courtyard there is a stone fountain with a wrought iron crown and statues of the four seasons that were brought to this place from the park. Mokritz was also a large farm with its own sawmill and forestry (a good 900 hectares in the Sichelburger Forest), dairy, pond farming and fruit and wine growing, which was only put to an end by phylloxera around 1900. The Mokritzer sandstone was used in many large buildings in imperial Vienna ( votive church , stock exchange , town hall , art history museum , etc.)

history

As far as can be ascertained today, Mokritz was first mentioned in documents as "Geslos" in 1444 and as "sicz" in 1451. 1474 is spoken of a "castrum nomine Mokruz". Vizebanus Ambrož Gregorijanec is the first general owner (signed on August 4, 1560 with Lucas Zäckl and Franz Tacho). The lords of Gregorijanec (Gregorianitsch) died out in 1610, and the rule of Mokritz finally came into the ownership of the von Auersperg family through various succession in the Moscon , Draschkovich , Erdödy and Gallenberg families in 1727 .

Other owners of Mokritz:

  • 1719 Anna Barbara Countess Erdödy von Monyorókerék (1693–1727) married to Dismas Andreas Christian Graf von Auersperg (1680–1742)
  • 1727 Wolfgang Nikolaus Count of Auersperg (1717–1759)
  • 1760 Maria Nikolaus Tolentinus Count of Auersperg (1753–1828)
  • 1812 Michael Franz Sales Nikolaus Graf von Auersperg (1791–1847)
  • 1847 Gustav Franz Viktor Nikolaus Count of Auersperg (1815–1880)
  • 1880 Beatrix Aloisia Serafina Maria Countess von Auersperg (1848–1919) married to Heinrich Moritz Cornelius Freiherr von Gagern (1841–1894), son of Maximilian Josef Ludwig Freiherr von Gagern (1810–1889)
  • 1915 Nicolaus Gustav Max Heinrich Freiherr von Gagern (1875–1947)

The connection between Auersperg and Gagern meant that great minds of the 19th century such as B. Theodor Mommsen and Anastasius Grün (an Auersperg cousin of the lord of the castle Gustav Graf von Auersperg) came to us in Mokritz.

During the First World War , Nicolaus Freiherr von Gagern, brother of Hans Moritz Heinrich Freiherr von Gagern (artist) and Friedrich Heinrich Karl Gustav Max Freiherr von Gagern (writer), sold half of the estate to Count Economo from Trieste; between 1915 and 1922 the two families were co-owners of Mokritz.

Count Economo subsequently sold his half to Milan Prpič, a timber merchant. The timber industrialist Berger from Agram took over the castle in its entirety on August 1, 1923 and sold it on to the Archdiocese of Agram in 1937 , which used the castle as a seminar and summer residence for Cardinal Stepinac and received and renovated it in an exemplary manner.

In 1941 the castle was occupied by the German Wehrmacht . After the war, in 1945, Mokritz was nationalized. Today Mokritz is managed as a castle hotel and golf course by Terme Čatež.

literature

  • Falk von Gagern : Mokric. The home of Friedrich von Gagern . Paul Parey Publishing House, Hamburg / Berlin 1962, DNB 451419790 .
  • Konrad Falko Wutscher: Mokritz Castle in the Lower Carniola. In: ARX. ISSN  0394-0624 No. 1, 2006, pp. 24–28, Fig.
  • Ivan Brlić: Mokritz, Spirit and History. In the footsteps of Friedrich von Gagern. Edited by Friedrich von Gagern's friends. 1971.
  • Ivan Stopar: Castles and Chateaux in Slovenia. Publisher Cankarjeva Zalozbra, Ljubljana 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mokrice, Mokrice Castle (Slovenian Tourist Board)
  2. ↑ a b c d Konrad Falko Wutscher: Mokritz Castle in the Lower Carniola. In: ARX. ISSN  0394-0624 , No. 1, 2006, pp. 24–28, Fig.
  3. ↑ Milko Kos : Gradivo za historično topografiije Slovenije. Laibach 1976.
  4. ↑ Falk von Gagern: Mokric. The home of Friedrich von Gagern . Paul Parey Publishing House, Hamburg / Berlin 1962.
  5. ↑ Mokrice Castle - Through the Ages (PDF)

Coordinates: 45 ° 51 ′ 30.9 ″  N , 15 ° 40 ′ 32.4 ″  E