Raggnitz Castle
The Raggnitz Castle is first documented in 1254 mentioned building in the town of Steinfeld in Carinthia .
location
The castle complex with the associated farm buildings is located about 500 meters southwest of the village of Lind on the valley floor of the upper Drautal. Politically, it belongs to the Steinfeld community.
history
Raggnitz was first mentioned in a document in 1254, when the archbishop of Salzburg , Philipp von Spanheim, assigned his archer Heinrich, known as Swaeroubte, a court with the associated land in Racknitz . These lands were part of the possessions that Count Albert III had acquired two years earlier . of Tyrol had to be ceded to Duke Bernhard of Carinthia and his son, Elekt Philipp. But as early as 1304, Raggnitz and Lind were added to the County of Gorizia . In 1429 Siegmund von Lind was enfeoffed with the rule of Lind (and thus also the lands of Raggnitz). After the castles of Ober- and Unterlind had fallen into disrepair, the Lords of Lind chose the more conveniently located Hof von Raggnitz as their new seat, which they had expanded like a castle. Around 1789 the castle was sold to the trades Paul Matthias von Tschabuschnigg, who made major changes to the facility. The chapel, for example, was built by him. After several changes of ownership, the building finally came into the possession of the current owners, the Wernisch family, in 1872.
architecture
Raggnitz Castle is a two-storey building with an attic storey in the middle . Part of the complex is a wall that encompasses the area and is reinforced by a tower in the north-western part. The building got its current appearance towards the end of the 18th century when it was rebuilt using older parts from the 15th century.
The building, which was erected on an almost square floor plan, has two protruding corner projections on the northeastern side , each covered by a tent roof and a small lantern sitting on it. The eight-axis facade is horizontally banded on the ground floor, but on the upper floor it is structured by delicate pilasters with Ionic plaited capitals. The stucco framing of the windows with their early Classicist roofs are pulled up to the cornice. The stone-framed round arch portal on the front side dates from the end of the 18th century.
The central ground floor corridor is barrel vaulted , in the second, north-facing corridor there is a lancet barrel vault with a stucco burr network - both date from the 16th century. The hall on the upper floor has a flat ceiling and a rococo oven. At the south-western end of the hall there is a chapel with an inscription plaque with the year 1795 above the entrance door. Another plaque was put up on the occasion of the permission given in 1797 to celebrate masses here. The chapel is decorated with illusionistic wall paintings, which depict scenes from the Old Testament in rich classical architecture. The early classical altar shows a representation of Mary in the altarpiece.
swell
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 666.
- Entry via Raggnitz to Burgen-Austria
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Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 49.1 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 52.5 ″ E