Prankh Castle
Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 50 " N , 14 ° 51 ′ 45" E
The Pran (c) kh Castle is located in the village of Prankh near Sankt Marein in Styria . It served the old noble family von Pranckh as their ancestral seat for several centuries. The former moated castle is still preserved today in the form of a Renaissance building.
history
As early as the 11th century, next to the main defense structure of the Mareiner Boden, Feistritz Castle, Prankh Castle was built, on which the followers of the originally high liberties of Feistritz-Traisen, the Knights of Pranckh , later barons and counts, sat. In the 13th century, the complex was expanded, since the von Pranckh castle has always been reported to be protected by a moat. As with other mansions, different lines of Pranckh lived on the property at the same time.
In 1298, Friedrich von Pranckh and the heiress Anna von Pux married. In addition to possessions in Styria and Carinthia, Anna also brought the future headquarters of the Pranckhher, Pux Castle , located in Styria near Teufenbach on the upper reaches of the Mur, into the marriage. However, the seat of the manor was not moved to the upper Mur Valley to Pux until 1425 . Part of the family stayed in St. Marein, where Turkish invasions increased during this time . Due to the fortification, however, they did not dare to attack the castle.
In 1551 Ludwig Stürgkh von Plankenwarth inherited the castle. In 1562 the two independent buildings were combined in a renaissance building. Stürgkh's sons sold the castle to von Hohenburg in 1578, who in turn gave it to von Concin in 1611. In 1622 the von Hoyos family gained possession of the rule in a legal battle. In the same year, however, the rule was sold to the Seckau monastery , which had owned the castle as a donation since 1207, and until then had mostly given it as a fief . However, since neither the monastery nor the Styrian religious fund, which had taken over the goods, took care of the castle, it had already deteriorated in 1782, when the monastery was abolished by Emperor Joseph II , that in 1815 by a dilapidated castle Seckau was reported.
It was sold to private individuals for state ownership. In 1838 it came to the Weinmeisters and in 1896 to the Knights of Leuzendorf, who carried out the long-awaited renovations. Further owners were the von Thalhammer and Hamker families, who acquired the castle in 1963 and run a forest and estate administration on it.
literature
- Baravalle, Castles and Palaces of Styria, Graz 1961
- Dehio Steiermark Dehio-Handbuch, Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Styria (excluding Graz), arr. by Kurt Woisetschläger and Peter Krenn, Vienna 1982
- Austrian Castle Lexicon, Martinic Georg Clam, Landesverlag, 1991
- Castles and palaces in the Ennstal and Murboden, Herwig Ebner, 1963
- Austrian Castle Lexicon, Georg Clam Martinic, 1992
- Castles in Austria II, Laurin Luchner, 1983
- From lock to lock in Austria, Gerhard Stenzel, 1976
Web links
- Entry via Prankh on Burgen-Austria