Paternion Castle
Paternion Castle is a former mansion in Paternion in the lower Drautal in Carinthia . It was the seat of the Paternion rulership , today the listed complex is owned by the Foscari-Widmann-Rezzonico family and houses the family's forest and estate management.
history
From 1309 on, a property called Sand Paternian appears in Ortenburg documents , so that a knightly residence can already be assumed here at this time. The existence of a castle in Paternion can be documented for the year 1354, but a Paternion rule is not mentioned for the first time until 1523. It was created by merging the Stockenboi and Feistritz offices . After the Peace of Pusarnitz passed from the Görzern into the possession of the Habsburgs , these areas were given to Sigmund von Dietrichstein in 1517/1518 for an amount of 10,000 guilders and thus to the Dietrichstein family , who mined for silver, lead and iron in the area operated. Sigmund built a large castle in the center of his possessions, a complex consisting of four wings.
Sigmund's son, Sigmund Georg, pledged Paternion in 1582 to his caretaker Salomon Zeidler from Bautzen and in 1587 to Moriz Christof Khevenhüller von Aichelberg. He finally bought the rule from him in 1592 and expanded the castle further. When the Khevenhüller had to emigrate from Carinthia in the course of the Counter Reformation in 1629, they sold the property to Martin Widmann, a citizen of Villach and a Venetian trader . The Widmann were raised to the rank of counts and barons in 1640 and called themselves Counts of Ortenburg .
Most of the palace complex, which was built in the course of the 16th century, was destroyed by fire in 1859, only the west wing remained. Countess Elisabeth Maria Adrienne Widmann inherited the property in 1878 as the last representative of the Widmann family, she married the Venetian Count Piero Foscari . In 1897/1898 the palace was partially rebuilt, but in the historicist style customary at the time . The eastern wings in particular were largely rebuilt, while the western parts have been partially preserved.
The property is still owned by the Foscari-Widmann-Rezzonico family.
description
The elongated palace complex is located on a hill south of the center of Paternion. The building complex consists of several wings that surround a large rectangular courtyard on three sides. The oldest part, the west wing spared from the major fire in 1859, has two floors and is covered with a hipped roof. At its north corner there is a driveway through an inside and outside arched rustic portal . The north-eastern outer wall of the residential floor is adorned with an alliance coat of arms of the Dietrichsteiners with the year 1558, another coat of arms of the Widmann (marked 1629) is on the courtyard side above the portal. There are several vaulted rooms on the ground floor of the building, including the castle chapel. To the west is a commercial wing, probably built around 1629. The stately living area consists of the two hook-shaped wings in the south of the complex. The three-storey buildings were probably built in the 17th century and heavily modified in the 19th century. The southeast entrance is a renaissance portal made of red stone. Above it in round stone fields the coats of arms of the Foscari-Widmann-Rezzonico. Roman tombstones and medieval spolia from Italy are attached to the facade . A little in front of the entrance there is an extension with a portal from the 16th century, above which the lion of St. Mark is walled in.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 615 f.
- Wilhelm Deuer: Castles and palaces in Carinthia . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0307-6 , pp. 168ff.
- Hermann Wiessner, Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka: Castles and palaces in Carinthia. Volume 3. Hermagor, Spittal / Drau, Villach . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1986 (2nd edition), without ISBN, p. 150ff.
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Paternion to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 42.2 " N , 13 ° 38 ′ 12.3" E