Premstätten Castle

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Premstätten Castle with the Castle Chapel

The Castle Premstätten is a castle in the market town Premstätten in Styria . Its history goes back to the second half of the 12th century. Today it is privately owned.

Location

The castle stands in the Premstättner cadastral community of Oberpremstätten on a small elevation on the western edge of the Grazer Feld at Tobelbader Straße 30.

history

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1164. At that time it was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Premstätten. When the Premstätten family died out in 1386, the mansion came into the possession of Hans the heretic. Between 1441 and 1870 it was owned by the Saurau family . Jörg von Saurau received in 1448 from King Friedrich III. permission to rebuild the ruined tower of the estate. The property, which was hardly fortified at the time, was badly damaged in 1532 during the first Austrian Turkish War . Under Leonhard von Saurau, the estate was expanded into a castle and in 1635 incorporated into a family entrepre- neurship. The palace chapel was consecrated in 1774 and the facades were redesigned in Baroque style in 1775 .

After the Saurau died out, the castle came into the possession of the Goëss family . They were followed in 1904 by Countess Hermine von Normann-Ehrenfels as the owner. In 1911, the entire roof structure was destroyed by a fire, which was replaced a short time later. In 1927 the countess had the entire inventory auctioned. In 1931 the castle was sold to the Order of the Comboni Missionaries , who used it as a religious house and boarding school.

In 1938 the school was closed and the building was occupied by SS units who set up an information and news center in it. After the Second World War it was used as accommodation for the English occupation soldiers, who destroyed many of the stone figures in the park through target practice. Between 1947 and 1982 the Comboni missionaries took over Premstätten Castle again and used it again as a school before they sold it to today's company ams AG , which still owns it today.

description

Pictures of the front side with roof turrets (top row), the figures in the park, the palace chapel and the attached ams AG building (middle row), the interior, the north side and the arcade courtyard (bottom row)

The castle is a three-storey four-wing building from the second half of the 17th century, which surrounds an arcaded courtyard . The ground and first floors are connected on the outside with pilasters and on the corners with double pilasters. There is a surrounding cornice above it . The second floor has the same structure as the floors below. There is a roof turret on the eastern outer wall . This side is designed by two curved gables over the two central axes, with sculptures originally made by Johann Piringer , first mentioned in 1771 and renewed after a fire in 1911, as well as an arbor as a display side. On the north and south outer walls there are also rustic portals designed by Piringer and first mentioned in 1771 with the alliance coat of arms of those of Saurau - Dietrichstein . The arcades in the inner courtyard extend over all three floors and have pressed arches that are closed on each floor by the same pilasters with windows.

Inside the castle there are four stucco ceilings designed in 1772 by Heinrich Formentini in the Rococo style. Originally, seven rooms on the first floor were decorated with wall paintings , probably made by Johann Caspar Fibich , which are currently only partially preserved. The floors are connected by a wide staircase and a small staircase originally designed for servants. The interior is partly from the period between 1770 and 1780. Some of the ovens are designed in the style of Rococo and Early Classicism .

The two-storey palace chapel is dedicated to St. Mary and has a flat dome . The tabernacle altar made of white marble, designed by Veit Königer in 1773, is decorated with two kneeling angel statues. The Venetian-influenced ceiling and wall paintings inside the chapel from 1772 are by Eustachius Gabriel . At the front of the chapel there is a representation of the Coronation of Mary , framed by painted column architecture , and to the side of it portraits of Fides and Spes in niches . An architectural structure and depictions of Caritas, the Archangel Michael and a guardian angel were painted on the side walls . A representation of Saint Eustachius can be seen under the gallery , while Saints John Capistranus and Vincent Ferrer are depicted above the gallery . The dome depicts the Assumption of the Virgin Mary , surrounded by angels and saints. The spandrels of the dome are decorated with depictions of the four evangelists .

In the walled French garden of Schloss Premstätten there is a late Baroque garden house with a mansard roof and four stone figures designed by Johann Piringer in 1773 as allegories of the four seasons.

literature

  • Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 377-378 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e entry about Premstätten on Burgen-Austria
  2. ↑ a b c d e Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 377-378 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Premstätten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 36.6 ″  N , 15 ° 23 ′ 46.3 ″  E