Stübing Castle
The Stübing Castle is a castle in Kleinstübing, a place in the market town German Feistritz in Styria . Its history goes back to the first half of the 12th century.
location
The castle is located on a small hill above the cadastral municipality of Kleinstübing , which belongs to the market town of Deutschfeistritz and is formed by the last branch of a ridge that slopes from the Gamskogel to the east-southeast. It is a large, regular, rectangular building around a wide courtyard. In the 19th century the castle was rebuilt in the so-called Windsor style. Traces of old fortifications have been preserved: parts of almost leveled trenches, sparse remains of defensive walls and the deep gate entrance. Originally it was probably just a house without a keep but with walls and moats.
The castle chapel was consecrated to the Holy Trinity. There is a semicircular tower in the south. In between there is a connecting part with the entrance gate. The defensive wall that delimits the courtyard extends on the mountain side.
history
In 1130, three highly free brothers, sons of Rafolt I von Traisen, appeared in a dedication for the Garsten monastery : Adalbero von Feistritz , Swiker von Gösting and Bernhard (Bero) von Stübing. The latter was an uncle of Konrad Hennes, the son of Adalberos von Feistritz, who was at Himberg near Deutsch-Feistritz. Bero von Stübing only had two daughters, Hildegard and Fromut. It is mentioned for the last time in 1175. With him, the full free von Stübing in the male line went out. Her successors with the same surname were already ministerials to the sovereign. In 1179 Otto and his son Herrand are called Wernhart von Stübing in 1210. Stübing probably fell to the sovereign after the completely free family had died out and was now given to a family of ministerials who then named themselves after the castle. It is also not ruled out that the Stübingen, who now appeared as state ministerials, were related to the fully free sex.
In 1249 Walbrunn and his wife Berchta von Stübing are mentioned; That year they donated a vineyard in Stübing to Vorau Abbey . Then the family disappears, because the Gerwolf von Stubnih, mentioned in 1314, was a servant of the Stubenbergs and had nothing to do with the defense construction of Stübing. Apparently the Stübingen were related to or related by marriage to the Gradners, because around the beginning of the 14th century their defense construction came to this family. Gradner fiefdom near Stübing, namely two vineyards near the Ulleinshof, had given Mrs. Margaret the rich woman from (German) Feistritz, which she donated to the Seckau monastery in 1397 with the approval of Gradner .
The Gradner family was followed by Erasmus Steinwald von Fladnitz, who bequeathed Stübing to his grandson Georg Breuner , who received the princely fiefs over Stübing in 1417. In the last few decades the farm seems to have fallen into disrepair, because Breuner immediately began to expand it; In 1448 Emperor Friedrich gave Philipp Breuner "his court in Stubming above the village, initially under the vineyard" - presumably the property known as "Ulleinshof" in 1397 - with all the rights, freedoms and customs as they "other prince Freyungen in Styria" own, lent and in 1453 he received a castle keep at the seat , which reached from the Königsgraben to the Enzenbach.
Philipp was followed by Hans Breuner in 1458 and his son Jörg, who was awarded Stübing in the fraternal division of inheritance from Bernhard and Friedrich Breuner in 1472 and again in 1476; In 1475 he was enfeoffed with Stübing. In the Hungarian War he seems to have sided with the emperor's opponents, because in 1480 Emperor Friedrich ordered him to be brought to Pankratz Gosseneder by armed force to obey. It was followed in 1496 by his brothers Bernhart and Friedrich, this Hans Breuner, who in 1509 received two farms from the Admont Monastery for a loan of 100 guilders (in 1541 Philipp Breuner created a farm for his castle from these farms). Stübing came to Christof Breuner in 1524, who in 1528 had the keep, which was awarded in 1453 and 1514, confirmed. Philipp Breuner expanded Stübing further, led a splendid life and took part in a tournament in Vienna (1567) shortly before his death. His son Gottfried sold Stübing in 1577 to his brother Kaspar's wife, Leonara, who bequeathed the rule to her son Jakob. After his early death, it was administered by his father, Kaspar Breuner. In 1615 a daughter of Hans Sigmund von Wagen took over the rule, but sold her in 1630, since he had to leave the country as a Protestant, to Georg Amelreich von Eibiswald.
From this she acquired Johann Anton Fürst von Eggenberg in 1635 with 92 Pfennig Gülten. The Eggenbergs merged the Stübing dominion with the Waldstein dominion . After the death of the last Prince of Eggenberg in 1717, Stübing married Count Johann Wilhelm Sinzendorf or his wife Josefa Maria geb. Princess Eggenberg. In 1730 Gottfried Graf von Dietrichstein acquired the dominions of Stübing and Waldstein for a total of 140,000 guilders.
The Dietrichstein let the property fall into disrepair. Count Wilhelm Palffy-Daun von Erdöd acquired the dilapidated property in 1863 and had it renovated in the Windsor style. Before 1959 the castle was privately owned by Franz Fattinger, who ran a model farm here. In 1960 the castle was sold to SOS Children's Villages Austria . The subsequent renovation work took away much of the castle's romantic and graceful shape. It was used for the administration of the SOS Children's Village in Stübing and for residential purposes.
Stübing Castle has been privately owned since the end of 2016.
layout
The castle is a regular, rectangular building around a rectangular courtyard. From 1863 it was renovated in the Windsor style. The courtyard is bordered on the mountain side by a defensive wall. The main building is in the northern part of the complex, a semicircular tower in the southern part. Between the former and now secularized palace chapel, formerly consecrated to the Holy Trinity , and the tower is a connecting part with the entrance gate.
Today the original fortifications are still partially recognizable. You can find parts of the filled-in trenches and remains of the defensive walls. Until 1960 the castle was surrounded by a park and garden.
literature
- Georg Clam Martinic: Castles & Palaces in Austria. 1991, ISBN 3-85001-679-1 .
- Robert Bravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria. 1961, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 .
Web links
- Entry via Stübing to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 47 ° 10 ′ 48.1 ″ N , 15 ° 19 ′ 16.7 ″ E