Silberegg Castle
Silberegg Castle is a listed building erected at the beginning of the 16th century in the town of the same name, which today belongs to the municipality of Kappel am Krappfeld in Carinthia .
history
Silberegg is a village southeast of Althofen , which first appeared in documents in 1202 and 1285. Due to the silver deposits , a settlement existed here as early as Roman times, which is indicated by remains of buildings and numerous excavations. In the Middle Ages there was a castle here, which is proven in 1274 with Meinhalmus de Silbereke. However, their location can no longer be determined today.
The castle was built at the beginning of the 16th century and has already been built in its current form. Bernhard Khulmer zum Rosenbichl is often assumed to be the builder, the first established owner was a Hans von Silberegg, who died in 1543; his tombstone is in the parish church of St. George . His daughter married Sebastian von Schönaich, after which the castle became the property of Hans Leonhard Freiherr von Windischgrätz. He had to sell it - presumably in the course of the Counter Reformation - so that ownership went to Georg Siegmund von Althofen (Ambthofen) in 1629, a trade from Mauterndorf who died in 1649. In 1632 he received the concession to build the Silberegger Hütte and in 1641 was promoted to the Carinthian state . His daughter married the baron Christoph Andreas von Gaisruck († 1668). In the second half of the 19th century, Max Thaddäus von Egger took over the property including the hut from the last owner of this name . Then the owners of the mansion changed in quick succession until the Gegenbauer family became owners of the castle in 1930 and owned it until 1980. In 1996 Hermann Fleischhacker bought the castle from the Schade family. In the following years the castle was renovated from the basement to the roof. Among other things, the historical coloring was restored. In addition to several apartments, there is also a restaurant in the castle.
description
Silberegg Castle is in the center of the village at the junction between Kappeler Straße (L94) and Silberegger Straße (L82). It is a three-wing, three-story building that encloses a square inner courtyard. At the corners of the building there are two slender, square towers with pointed helmets, which, however, only barely rise above the hipped roof of the main building. The northeast tower had to give way to the nearby farm building in the 20th century and was demolished. At the same time, the southwest tower was raised and has served as a clock tower ever since. The facades from 1870 have a simple structure: cordon cornices, profiled cornice and simple window frames (plastering flaps). On the south-west side there is a simple marble portal with a profiled wall and a horizontal end over pilasters with capitals made of acanthus leaves .
The interior of the palace is located on the ground floor with a continuous transverse arbor with barrel vaults and stitch caps with a side staircase leading to the bel étage , above it a hall with a baroque stucco ceiling and a checkerboard stone floor from the 18th century. The rooms on the first floor have lavish panel parquet floors, which were restored in the course of the renovation work in 1997.
Next to the main building is a group of farm buildings, in which a brewery (Silberbräu) and a distillery were set up at times. The brewery was shut down in 1929 and the distillery operated until 2008.
literature
- Dehio Carinthia 2001 . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 879.
- Siegfried Hartwagner : Carinthia. The district of St. Veit an der Glan (= Austrian art monograph, Volume VIII). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 . P. 227.
Web links
- Entry via Silberegg Castle to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 46 ° 51 ′ 5.2 ″ N , 14 ° 29 ′ 30.4 ″ E