Pöls Castle

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Pöls Castle in the Topographia Ducatus Stiria by Vischer

The Pöls Castle is a castle in the municipality Dobl-Zwaring in Styria . Its history goes back to the middle of the 13th century. It is privately owned.

Location

The castle stands on a small hill on the right bank of the Kainach .

history

The estate was first mentioned in a document as the Salzburg Zehenthof in 1244. Towards the end of the 16th century, the farm was expanded by the Counts of Saurau . Between 1794 and 1801 the castle was owned by Ludwig Graf Galler, who set up a brewery in it. In 1855, Friederike von Washington bought the property from her wedding equipment. Her husband Maximilian Emanuel von Washington then devoted himself to expanding Pöls Castle into a model agricultural estate. As a native Duchess of Oldenburg, Friederike von Washington was a sister of Queen Amalie of Greece (she was married to King Otto I of the Wittelsbach family) and first cousin of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria. The property thus came into the hands of the Barons of Washington, distant relatives of the first US president. In 1924 George von Washington , the son of Friederike and Maximilian Emanuel von Washington, signed all of his property over to his second wife, Maria v. W., used Crucified. In 1928, they sold the castle and the property belonging to it to the Mahla trade. After this, Pöls Castle, after a large part of the property was sold to the Austrian Armed Forces, went to the Allesch family, who have since called Pöls Castle together with the estate as their own. The castle was renovated in 1929.

description

The castle is a three-storey two-wing building. In the courtyard corner there is a set, octagonal stair tower with a pointed helmet and an arcade on the upper floor . Are located at the corners of buildings on pillars seated corbel - bay , originally from onion helmets were covered.

Inside the castle there are two from the period around 1770 originating Rococo - stucco ceilings . The stucco ceiling on the second floor has a recessed ceiling image with Venus and Cupid from the first quarter of the 18th century.

The former castle chapel is located on the first floor of the north wing. It has two coupled arched windows. The rich stucco work dates from between 1660 and 1670 and is related to the work of Johannes Baptist Cherubini .

According to an inscription, the outbuilding of the castle was built in 1739.

literature

  • Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 374 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 374 .
  2. ^ Parish chronicle . www.zwaringpoels.at, accessed on July 28, 2012 (German).

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Coordinates: 46 ° 54 ′ 16.9 "  N , 15 ° 23 ′ 51.2"  E