Nechelheim Castle
| Nechelheim Castle | |
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 Nechelheim Castle in St. Lorenzen |
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| place | Rammersdorf, Sankt Lorenzen in the Mürz Valley |
| Architectural style | Baroque |
| Construction year | previously an estate, 1789 rebuilding / conversion |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 29 '2.7 " N , 15 ° 21' 33.2" E |
Nechelheim Castle (also Nechelhaym , Nechelheimb , after "Heim des Neche" ) is a castle in Rammersdorf, KG von Sankt Lorenzen im Mürz Valley , Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district , Styria . It is a listed building .
history
Nechelheim is one of the oldest small aristocratic estates in Styria. It was first mentioned in a document in 1188 as the “Heim des Neche”, when the then Nechelheimer moved to the Holy Land as a crusader with Emperor Friedrich I and never returned. In 1401 Reginwart, the last known Nechelheimer, sold a mill on the Mürz to Jakob von Stubenberg . In 1434 Nechelhaym appears as an interest-paying farm in a land register of the Admont Abbey . King Friedrich IV enfeoffed Andreas Krabatsdorfer with him in 1443. Around 1490 the estate, which originally comprised only four farms, passed to the Färber family; In 1542 it already had 28 subjects. In 1613 Franz Färber sold the noble seat, which was still a sovereign fiefdom, to Theodor von Gabelkhoven .
The hammer mills Joseph Ferdinand Hentz von Hentzenhaimb and 1678 Johann Ferdinand Zehentner, Baron von Zehentgrueb, followed as owners. His widow sold the reign in 1691 to Johann Adam von Monzello, who turned it into a Fideikommiss for his nephew, the hammer lord Franz Fraydt von Fraydenegg. In 1707 he inherited the rule under the name Fraydenegg-Monzello.
Wolf Jakob von Fraydenegg-Monzello was an important sponsor of the pilgrimage church Maria Rehkogel in Frauenberg between 1769 and 1779 . In 1789, Franz Xaver Freiherr von Fraydenegg-Monzello had the old fortified residence converted into today's castle. It is still in the possession of his descendants. The keep shown on a Vischer engraving from 1681 was almost completely demolished during the renovation in 1789.
architecture
Nechelheim Castle is located in a small park west of St. Lorenzen in the Mürz Valley. The on Vischer - stitch apparent from 1,681 dungeon has been largely removed during the conversion of the 1789th The lower part is built into the building and is not visible from the outside. The south wall in front of it, with its two round two-storey defense towers, is also no longer preserved today. Only traces of the former moat can still be seen in the park.
The building is essentially a three-storey baroque building with a rectangular floor plan. Particularly noticeable are the two round corner towers with their high domes on the narrow gable front of the south facade. A clock is built into the round gable in between. The house chapel is located on the second floor of the southwest tower. It is decorated with wall paintings and a ceiling painting depicting St. Franz Xavier represents. According to the signature, it was created by Joseph Michael Gebler in 1789. The year 1648 is stamped into the bell of the chapel tower. Particularly noteworthy is the vaulted porch on the ground floor, adorned with the coats of arms of the former owners, as well as paintings and historical weapons. West of the castle building is a grain box built in the 16th century, which was later converted into a farm building.
See also
literature
- Herwig Ebner: Castles and palaces in the Mürz Valley and Leoben. 1965
- Gerhard Stenzel: From castle to castle in Austria. 1976
- Franz Pichler: Nechelheimb, castle. In: Franz Huter (Ed.), Hanns Bachmann: Handbook of historical sites . Band: Austria. Part 2: Alpine countries with South Tyrol (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 279). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-520-27902-9 , p. 120.
- Dehio Steiermark 1982, p. 459
- Laurin Luchner: Castles in Austria II. 1983
- Georg Clam Martinic: Austrian Castle Lexicon. 1992
- H. Marek, E. Neffe: Castles and palaces in Styria. 2004
Web links
- Entry on Nechelheim Castle in the Austria Forum
- old postcard on shop.muenzversand.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz Allmer: The "Melblerpeter" - Hof , maschinschriftliche Court History, f 1971, p 13, PDF (7 MB) on the website Smelter Ziringer
- ^ Entry about Nechelheim Castle on Burgen-Austria