Ottersbach Castle
Ottersbach Castle is located in Mantrach ( Großklein municipality , Leibnitz district ), in southern Austria in Styria .
history
On March 19, 1616, Archduke Ferdinand "freed" Hans Murn "the Stockh", which he "rebuked" as a noble residence and allowed him to call it Ottersbach and to use the same title. Murn had acquired the neighboring castle Mantrach in 1593 , but by that time it had already fallen into disrepair.
Here are some text passages from the request: "... After our faithful dear Hanns Murn obediently affirmed that he aine stick on the water flow of the Sulbm vndter Gleinstetten ... pealed anew and raised by the blessing of God and honestly with the same stick in such a way and has improved that he made the 180 pound that he belonged to and ... that we ... smelled such his pimped stick to a Edlman seat at Berfreyn, ... that he call such seat Otterpach, including himself and his marital heirs who Murn zu Otterspach would like to write and intitulate ... "The" Murn zu Ottersbach "got a talking coat of arms that expresses the rulership name in pictures:" A flooded wave beam led over a pole, which with an otter with his Fish in the mouth is occupied. "
Murn handed the property over to Elias Hemeter, a relative, who, however, paid the collected interest so irregularly that a large debt had already arisen in 1620. Hans Murn was followed by his son Hans Jakob (1629) as the owner, and his brother Hans Wilhelm (1633), who was murdered in 1650 by his ward Christof Andree von Gleinz. Ottersbach was sold from the estate in 1653 to Hans Georg Adam Adl von Adlstein, who sold it to Sigmund Ludwig Graf Khünburg on September 20, 1675; after his death, his widow administered the rule for her son Johann Max, who took it over after he had come of age and sold it to Niklas Graf Lodron in 1692 ; after his death, after long disputes over inheritance, his widow and then his son received the rule. In 1700 it was seized because large tax sums were outstanding, and in 1708 Count Josef Lodron was forced to sell Ottersbach to Johann Anton von Liscutin. After his death there were so great debts on the estate that it had to be sold to Franz Josef von Hingenau in 1732, who soon ran into financial difficulties and, pointing to the great devastation of the forests by the storms in December 1739, asked for a tax write-off. The property came to his son Franz Xaver Gottlieb in 1742. The rulership also included the village of Großklein, for which the Empress gave him permission to hold a second cattle market in the year. The now "Alt-Ottersbach" estate was inherited by his son, who sold it to Moritz Edlen von Pistor. After the death of his son it was auctioned off and bought by Kaspar Wilhelm Graf Khünburg on September 3, 1836 . In 1870 it came to his sister Caroline Countess Cerrini, then the Koch, Hohenburger and Germuth families, 1884–1893 Baron von Wucherer, and from 1893 the Teutsch, von Plappart and von Leenherr families.
The Abel family has owned Ottersbach Castle since 1925.
Abel family
- 1926: One year after the Abel family took over ownership of the castle, the first general renovation of the castle took place.
- 1945: Foreign troops looted and demolished the property.
- 1960: Some rooms were made usable again after the war damage.
- 1977: Beginning of the major expansion and renovation.
- 1988: Renovation of the south building.
- 2005: Establishment of the castle museum.
- 2005: Opening of the festival rooms.
The old driveway led from the north directly under the chapel, at the junction between the main wing and the side wing, into the courtyard, which is bordered to the south by broad farm buildings. Today, as in numerous other facilities, you can first get into the forecourt and through the south building to the castle via the former farm entrance in the south.
The ensemble includes the palace building with the south building (in the background), courthouse (left), pleasure house (right) and mill (in the foreground). The castle is located on the Sulm and forms a completely preserved ensemble with the historical mill complex. The Koralm and the setting sun are reflected in the pent-up Sulm.
The lock
Building history
In 1616, Hans von Murn built the first wing of the building, today's north wing with the high hipped roof. In the same century, a second, adjoining 'east wing' with a turret , which houses the gate building and the 17th century chapel , was connected to the south-east.
At the same time, the south building, the utility wing, was built as an L-shaped building. On both sides of the passage there is a 2-aisled, 3-yoke vaulted hall - formerly a stable and a carriage house, today part of the ballroom area.
museum
The museum is located in the main building only on the first floor.
park
The park has been open to the public since 2005 until further notice. The rose garden includes an approximately 60 m long rose arbor and a 2 m high metal rose.
Movie set
In the past, the castle was often used as a backdrop for film and television (see, inter alia, Lilly Schönauer - Detour to happiness ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schloss Ottersbach in the CINESTYRIA motif database ( accessed on June 19, 2013)
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 26 " N , 15 ° 24 ′ 28" E
Web links
- Ottersbach Castle
- Entry via Ottersbach Castle on Burgen-Austria
- Facebook presence of the castle's commercial use