Tentschach Castle
Tentschach Castle is a castle in Tentschach in the northwest of the Carinthian capital, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, which dates back to a castle from the 13th century and was built in its current form in the 16th century .
history
The Tentschach family is documented from 1269 to 1359. From 1351 there is a letter from Karath and Ernholdt von Tentschach for a daily Holy Mass there. According to Hieronymus Megiser , the castle then belonged to the Gressing, Rubenbergers, Gera and Pibriachers. According to Hieronymus Megiser, the castle then belonged to the Gressing, Rubenbergers, Gera and Pibriachers. The last Tentschacher Gressing, the knight Weygand, whose ancestral castle stood in Ponfeld - in the vicinity of today's Großinghof - is mentioned in 1326. Around 1480 ownership came to Wilhelm Rumpf von Wulroß, and in 1493 to Servatius Pibriacher. The Pibriacher family had the castle expanded in the manner of a castle around 1570 and sold the castle to Hans Pruggmayer in 1582, and in 1689 it went to Count Attems . On December 17, 1693 the rule was sold by the provost of Tainach , Karl Ludwig Klies, to Clement Ferdinand Freiherrn von Kaiserstein . The territory of the Tentschach rule forms the historical core of the cadastral community of the same name. At the auction of the property belonging to Paul Freiherr von Kaiserstein'schen Fideicommiss in 1886, there is talk of a largely rounded-off property of 320 yoke (182 ha) with 113 yoke (65 ha) of high forest and own huntability .
The last male Tentschacher Kaiserstein was Johann Nepomuk (1800–1848). After the death of Johann in 1827 he took over the administration of the indebted entails . He sold the Kleinreideben estate and was the only one who lived in Tentschach all year round and did not only use the castle as a second home. Long after his death, he continued to show "traces of bullets and saber blows" on the walls, allegedly traces of his fight against a "castle ghost". The narrative, retired Kaiserstein official Nussbaumer had circulated the haunted story known in the area decades earlier. Johann Nepomuk did not fully experience the liberation of the peasants, hated by the nobility, and is buried in St. Peter. Johann's sister Philippine Kaiserstein (1789–1855) was married to Joachim Göschen (1791–1855) from Leipzig , whose parent company was in Göschenen , Switzerland . Her son was the heraldist Oskar Göschen (1824–1900). Tentschach fell back to the Viennese line of the Kaiserstein in 1848 with the head of the family at the time, Franz Joseph III. (1792-1893). At first he lived in his castle Hexenagger in Bavaria, which he sold in 1830 and for it a property in Sooss (Lower Austria). He was also the owner of the Starkstadt rule in the Königgrätzer Kreis . He was married to Marie Leopoldine von Bartenstein , who brought the rule of Raab an der Thaya in Lower Austria into the family. People lived on Tentschach in summer and Raabs in winter. Franz died as Chamberlain and with the rank of Rittmeister . His son Karl (1824–1902), as a Lieutenant Field Marshal in Olomouc, was more oriented towards the northern property.
In 1876 an attempt was made to rent the castle. The advertisement states that the castle is "in a very healthy location, with a magnificent view, on one of the most beautiful points in Carinthia, surrounded by a small park, fruit and vegetable garden, including a glass and air house. [... ] The castle has two floors, with 14 furnished rooms, servants' quarters, kitchen, food, use and cellar, as well as a filled ice pit, then nearby stables and accessories for 21 horses. " Apparently they agreed to pass it on in the family, with the rich English branch of the family, represented by Viscount George Goschen (1831-1907), Treasury Secretary in the United Kingdom and the diplomat and ambassador Sir William Edward Goschen (1847-1924). In the last decade of the 19th century, Major Oskar von Göschen was the owner of the Tentschach estate, having previously lived in the Hollenburg and Mageregg Castle . He died in 1900 and is buried in Krastowitz. In the population he was considered a "nerd nature". It was said that "from time to time he held rehearsals of his funeral." Oskar's heir was Sir Eduard Göschen, around 1906 the English ambassador to the Viennese court. Around this time the English King Edward VII was at Tentschach Castle for a few days in two summers. There were always minor modifications to the castle. Sir Goschen had an old building that belonged to the good converted into a bathing establishment with a water pipe system.
Tentschach was confiscated during the First World War . It was classified as enemy possession as the property of the former British ambassador in Berlin, Lord Goschen. Now there was a Red Cross lung sanctuary in the castle for around 80 soldiers with lung disease with tuberculosis. A large lounge hall was built on the southern slope of the castle, "in which the sick could be fully exposed to the sun". After the First World War, the Goschen family got Tentschach back. It was sold in the second half of the 20th century. One of the last owners of Tentschach was the Carinthian artist Carlo Kos, who came from Laibach and who died in 2012. In addition to his work as a painter, he was a collector and restorer of the castles Ehrenhausen , Drasing and von Tentschach.
Building description
The castle, which can be seen from afar in the Wölfnitz and Glantal valleys, has a rectangular floor plan and mighty round towers at three corners. It is three stories. The inner courtyard is almost square, around 1700 it received arcades : pillar arcades on the ground floor, above pilasters that reach to the bases of the upper floor arcades . The latter were glazed in the 19th century. A neo-Romanesque arched frieze was attached to the outside under the roof hem in the middle of the 19th century . The tower is missing in the north-east corner, the building wings merge here inorganically. This part is considered to be the oldest in the complex.
The arched portal is in the middle of the east wing, above it a polygonal bay window with pilasters. At the corners there are arched windows and families: on the left that of the Goschen, in the middle Kaiserstein, on the right an empty coat of arms with the inscription: Whoever inherits Tentschach has it and here is space for his coat of arms . The windows are with slugs and coats of arms from the second half of the 19th century, created by Jakob Wald . The roof is partially covered with stone slabs, on top of which there is a small, wooden clock tower.
In the hall on the first floor there are further coats of arms of the Kaiserstein and portraits of the previous owners. Of the partly precious furnishings, the dining room's round table with a diameter of three meters is particularly worth mentioning. Some of the rooms on the second floor have stucco ceilings from the late 17th century and valuable doors.
The chapel, consecrated to St. Nicholas in 1700, is located on the ground floor of the northeast tower . There is a pre-Romanesque architrave above the entrance . This shows four crosses framed by circles. The altar is magnificent and pillarless, it was made around 1710. Its main picture shows the holy family, the top picture God the Father. The pictures are framed by rich acanthus tendrils. In the tracery windows there are neo-Gothic two-part glass paintings with ornaments and the coats of arms of the Pibriach, Grössing, Gera, Pruggmayer, Kaiserstein and Goschen families.
The frequent changes of owners led to the prophecy that no owner of Tentschach would be able to expand the fourth tower and "he would have to die over it, except for one who would finish the construction but be the last of his tribe."
literature
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Klagenfurt City (= Austrian Art Monograph , Volume X). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg (reprinted 1994, without ISBN), p. 204ff.
- Dehio Handbook Carinthia . 3. Edition. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 945.
- Pusikan ( Oskar Göschen ): The Kaiserstein. History of the house. Verlag Braumüller, Vienna. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , 1873, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
Web links
- Entry via Tentschach Castle to Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Göschen, Die Kaiserstein, 1873 , p. 32
- ^ Göschen, Die Kaiserstein, 1873 , p. 32
- ^ Göschen, Die Kaiserstein, 1873 , p. 32
- ^ Carinthia's knight castles, palaces, noble residences, ruins and sites of antiquities .. In: Kärntner Zeitung / Kärntner Tagblatt , August 22, 1894, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Pusikan ( Oskar Göschen ): The Kaiserstein. History of the house. Verlag Braumüller, Vienna. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , 1873, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
- ^ Kk regional court Klagenfurt: goods Tentschach and Steuerberg. In: Wiener Zeitung , December 16, 1885, p. (Bottom right) (Online at ANNO ).
- ^ Göschen, Die Kaiserstein, 1873 , p. 61 f.
- ↑ Göschen, Die Kaiserstein, 1873 , p. 71 f.
- ↑ death. In: Klagenfurter Zeitung , November 6, 1873, p. (Top left) (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Castle rental. In: foreigners sheet of the imperial and royal capital Vienna / foreigner sheet and tag news of the imperial and royal capital Vienna / foreigner sheet / foreigner sheet with Vedette / foreigner sheet with military supplement Die Vedette , March 16 1876, p. (Bottom right) (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ death. In: Lavantthaler Bote / Unterkärntnerische Nachrichten (formerly Lavanttaler Bote) / Unterkärntner Nachrichten (formerly Lavanttaler Bote) , February 24, 1900, p. (Bottom right) (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Tentschach. In: Kärntner Zeitung / Kärntner Tagblatt , January 24th, 1906, p. (Top right) (Online at ANNO ).
- ^ Court and Society. In: Sport & Salon , November 11, 1905, p. (Right) (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Tentschach near Klagenfurt. In: Kärntner Zeitung / Kärntner Tagblatt , March 11, 1910, p. (Bottom center) (Online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Small coincidences in the great war. In: Österreichische Volks-Zeitung / Kleine Volks-Zeitung / Volks-Zeitung , September 8, 1916, p. (3rd column, middle) (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ tuberculosis sanatorium in the castle Tentschach, 1913. Austria Press Agency Picturdesk, accessed on 21 February 2020 .
- ↑ Carinthia. Klagenfurt. Lung sanatorium Schloss Tentschach .. In: Der Bautechniker , born 1917, p. 110 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Wehbauten in Austria. Tentschach Castle. Hermann Truschnig wehrbauten.at, accessed on March 17, 2020 .
- ^ Kronen Zeitung (ed.): Death: He was a painter, art collector and the gentleman at Tentschach Castle. Carlo Kos has now died at the age of 89. Klagenfurt May 15, 2012, p. 43 .
- ↑ Hartwanger, Klagenfurt Stadt , p. 206
- ^ Göschen, Die Kaiserstein, 1873 , p. 32
Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 58 " N , 14 ° 15 ′ 38" E