Pitzelststätten Castle
The Pitzelstätten Castle is in the 16th century castle converted old castle in Klagenfurt district Wölfnitz . Pitzelststätten was acquired by the Austrian state in 1950 and has been used as an agricultural training facility ever since. Today the castle, which has been supplemented by several school buildings, is the seat of the State Higher Agriculture and Forestry School (HLFS).
history
Pitzelststätten was originally a castle, the name of which probably goes back to the name of the builder. After its establishment, it was a knightly fiefdom of the Carinthian duke, which is also indicated by the oldest known documentary mention from the year 1311, in which Heinrich von Kärnten awarded his income from Petzelsteten to a Walter von Gutenstein.
In the 16th century this castle was converted into a palace. The farm building is marked with the year 1529, the manor house was built in the second half of the 16th century. According to the chronicler Gothard Christalnick , the branch of the noble family of Dietrichsteiner , which is based in Carniola , had "wonderfully adorned and expanded". Soon afterwards Pitzelststätten was pledged to the Putz von Kirchheimeck trade family . From the middle of the 17th century Pitzelststätten changed hands frequently until it was acquired by the Austrian state in 1950.
The manor house received its current late baroque facade around 1740. It was restored in 1955 and 1978 .
The property is used today as an agricultural training facility. Initially as a training center for the Austrian farmer, which twelve years later was renamed “Higher Federal School for Agricultural Women’s Professions”, from 1988 “Higher Federal School for Agriculture and Housekeeping” and since 1995/96 as the “Higher Federal School for Agriculture and Food Management”. As it was used as a school, several other buildings were built around the palace complex between 1952 and 1955.
Building description
The castle is located on a gently sloping south-facing terrace on Glantalstrasse north of Klagenfurt. From the original castle complex, which can still be clearly seen in the depiction of Valvasor in 1680, only the remains of a tower are preserved today.
Next to the entrance is the two-and-a-half-storey commercial building of the castle, which according to an inscription on the outer wall was built in 1529 on a square floor plan. On the outer wall of the sober building there are remnants of painting from the early modern era, it has only small windows and a few loopholes that indicate the threat posed by the Turks in the Eastern Alps at this time. The arched pillar hall on the ground floor, originally used as a horse stable, was rebuilt in 1965 and decorated with mosaics by Max Spielmann . It is integrated into the school operations as a chapel . The storage floor above has flat wooden ceilings and has been used as a library since it was redesigned in 1997 .
The actual manor house is a rectangular, two-storey building with a typical transverse arbor on the ground floor, which corresponds to a hall that is now subdivided on the main floor . Today's facade of the building with a grooved base, pilasters and triangular gable with clock was built around 1740 . At the same time, two former stately rooms with stucco ceilings were designed inside . A polygonal bay window is built across the north side . Originally on the korbbogigen portal mounted in the style of the Renaissance -built frieze was set into the facade of the north side grown old chapel.
literature
- Dehio Handbook Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 625.
- Wilhelm Deuer: Castles and palaces in Carinthia . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0307-6 , p. 144 ff.
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Klagenfurt city . St. Peter, Salzburg (reprint 1994, without ISBN), page 102 ff. (= Austrian art monograph , volume X).
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Pitzelststätten to Burgen-Austria
- HLFS Pitzelststätten
Individual evidence
- ↑ S. Hartwagner: Klagenfurt City , p. 102.
Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 12 ″ N , 14 ° 16 ′ 2 ″ E