Pichlern Castle
Pichlern Castle (not to be confused with Pichlarn Castle in Styria) is a rural mansion in the Welzenegg district in the northeast of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee . The building, which was expanded into a residence around 1740 and was given its current castle-like shape in the middle of the 19th century through a further expansion, is a listed building .
history
Pichlern can be proven as a place name for the first time for the year 1287 in a document. The sale of a Hube in Pichlern is documented for 1555 , Abbot Bernhard von Viktring sold the estate to Thomas Püschel, a citizen of Klagenfurt. Franz Ignaz von Fresach, a former mayor of Klagenfurt, had the older, possibly medieval manor house expanded into a mansion around 1740. The baroque Stöckl was converted into a historicist castle in the years 1852 to 1854 , with a window axis added on each side and a tower added.
The listed building is privately owned.
description
The two-storey, eight-axis baroque building has a rectangular floor plan on a southern slope of the Maria Saaler mountain. Its facade was redesigned in the neo-Gothic style in the middle of the 19th century . On the display walls there is a restrained decor in the classic Tudor style . On the south-facing facade, inclined three-story square towers with curved pointed helmets protrude from both corners . An entrance hall with supporting pillars was built in the middle to support the balcony on the upper floor. This is protected by a small canopy over which the baroque ornamental gable rises. There are tin roof houses and chimney covers on the hipped roof of the castle.
Inside, groin vaults and barrel vaults with lancet caps in the northern ground floor rooms still document the baroque condition of the 18th century. In the salon on the upper floor there is a ceiling painting by Josef Fromiller , which was created around 1740. It depicts the four seasons in an allegory . Another work from Fromiller is a panel in the library showing the decapitation of St. Barbara . Most of the furnishings on the upper floor date from the mid-19th century renovation. On the first floor of the east tower there is a small house chapel dedicated to St. Catherine. Your ceiling is designed with historical stencil painting . It has narrow and high lancet windows with colorful, ornamental lead glazing . The altarpiece by Gebhard Flatz depicts the dying Franz Xaver .
literature
- Dehio Carinthia 2001 . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 623 f.
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Klagenfurt city. (= Austrian Art Monograph , Volume X). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1980, without ISBN, p. 184 f.
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Pichlern to Burgen-Austria
- Exterior shot of the castle on Youtube
Coordinates: 46 ° 38 ′ 48.7 " N , 14 ° 20 ′ 37.3" E