Thinnfeld Castle

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Thinnfeld Castle (2011)

The Thinnfeld Castle is located on the territory of the municipality German Feistritz in the district of Graz environment in Styria .

history

Between 1761 and 1764 Ferdinand Joseph von Thinnfeld had the castle built on what was then the edge of the village of Deutschfeistritz, at the foot of the Kirchberg . The well-known Graz architect Josef Hueber provided the plans , and the client Thinnfeld himself incorporated his own ideas. The wealthy Thinnfeld family owned several iron hammers in Deutschfeistritz, Waldstein and Übelbach . In 1731 Anton Balthasar and Josef Ferdinand were raised to the nobility and Ferdinand Joseph von Thinnfeld carried the nobility title "Noble Lord von Thinnfeld" from 1767.

Ferdinand Joseph's grandson, Ferdinand Freiherr von Thinnfeld , born in 1793 , was Minister for Agriculture and Mining under the young Emperor Franz Joseph I and was also involved in drafting the constitution in 1849 and in founding the Imperial Geological Institute. The castle was auctioned off in 1871 due to the high debts of the family, but one of the minister's daughter managed to acquire the family seat with the help of her husband, a Viennese dentist.

After the Second World War , the castle began to deteriorate due to neglect, but was restored in the 1970s. Thinnfeld Castle is one of the most beautiful Rococo castles in Styria and is currently owned by the Steinklauber family.

Architecture and design

The two-storey structure has a rectangular floor plan and is surrounded by a park. Four corner pavilions are attached to the building block, while the garden front jumps back slightly. The main wing has a high, hipped gable roof , while the corner pavilions have mansard roofs . The coat of arms of the Thinnfeld family is placed above the entrance gate. The facade is structured by a surrounding cornice between the two floors. A stucco-adorned ornamental window is embedded in the gable of the three-axis central risalite .

The entrance hall has flat squares and a wrought-iron railing in the stairwell. Significant Styrian Rococo artists contributed to the interior of the palace . Heinrich Formentini created the stucco ceilings in 1764. The ceiling paintings and wall coverings were made by Joseph Adam von Mölck . In the three-axis, centrally located garden hall, the depictions of Bacchus , Ceres , Venus and Vulcan are made by him. In the next room there is a fresco depicting Apollo and Daphne . Another room shows biblical scenes painted in 1766, for example Jacob and Rebekah at the fountain are depicted on the ceiling . The furnishings also include tiled stoves designed in the Rococo style and some portraits of the former lords of the castle. The house chapel is located in one of the corner pavilions facing the garden and is dedicated to the Holy Trinity . The crucifixion group consisting of a white wooden crucifix and two adoring angels was carved in 1768 by the South Tyrolean sculptor Veit Königer .

literature

  • Eva Klein, Margit Stadlober, Ulla Steinklauber (eds.): Thinnfeld Castle. A total work of art from the 18th century. (= Research on the historical regional studies of Styria, vol. 69) Leykam Verlag, Graz 2015 ISBN 978-3-7011-0331-7
  • Thinnfeld Castle, Deutschfeistritz. www.bda.at, accessed on July 9, 2012 (German).
  • Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 69 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e entry about Thinnfeld on Burgen-Austria
  2. ↑ a b Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 69 .

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Coordinates: 47 ° 12 ′ 3.9 ″  N , 15 ° 20 ′ 15.6 ″  E