Thunau Castle
| Thunau Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | before 1250 | |
| Conservation status: | not available anymore | |
| Place: | Oberhaag | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 40 '46.7 " N , 15 ° 20' 43.9" E | |
| Height: | 332 m above sea level A. | |
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Thunau Castle was a castle in the municipality of Oberhaag near the Slovenian border in southern Styria .
history
1250-1412
It was first mentioned in the scriptures in the 13th century. In 1250 it is owned by Count Bernhard and Heinrich von Pfannberg , whose servants were the Thunau residents. In 1245 and 1250 a Bertholt von Thunau, 1310 a Hans and 1315 a Poppo von Thunau is mentioned. The sons Poppos, Nikla, Chorherr zu Völkermarkt, Rudolf, Peter and Jörg signed the certificate of approval for the sale of various goods by their uncle Rudolf, priest of Vogau, to the Pettauer (1329) at their seat in Thunau , and Hermann von Thunau refuted his marriage property Mrs. Elspeth with goods at Oberhaag and Thunau (1348). In 1318 and 1355 Rudolf von Thunau held Seckauer fiefs in the area around Thunau. The gender economy went downhill. In 1412 Andree Thunauer and his son Hans had to move goods to Altenmarkt near Wies and they also had to give up the Thunau court in favor of the Närring family, who probably had inheritance claims to the court. The Thunau family died out in the middle of the 15th century.
1412-1594
The Närringers only owned the Thunauhof for a very short time. At the beginning of the 15th century it was held by the Metz, who also owned the neighboring Gundolfingen and temporarily sat as administrators on Arnfels . In 1428 Wilhelm Metz sat on the Thunauhof. Soon afterwards he sold it to Wilhelm von Perneck, from whom it came in 1430 to Hans Greißenecker's son Andree, who in 1443 received the princely fief over the court. In the Baumkircherkrieg in 1469/70 Andree Greißenecker (who was beheaded in Graz in 1471) lost the farm to Lienhard Harracher . After the Hungarian War, the Greißenecker got the property back at the end of the 15th century, and they owned it for another 100 years.
1594-1793
In 1594 the farm was then sold to the owner of Arnfels , Wilhelm von Gera, from whom it fell to Hans Christof von Gera. He sold Thunau in 1605 to Hans Hemetter. Since the acquisition by the Greißenecker, the farm had no longer been inhabited by noble families, but was presumably leased. Hans Hemetter was again sitting in Thunau himself and in the next few years bought a large number of goods in the area. His son Mathias (from 1619) continued such purchases. In 1636 he was inherited by his widow Anna Margareta and his two daughters, Cäcilia, nun of Göss, and Maria Salome, married to Hans Adam Welser. When Thunau took over in 1650, the Bishop of Seckau denied that Thunau was entitled to the right of a noble seat. After the death of Hans Adam Welser (owner since 1669) in 1682, inheritance disputes arose between his daughters, the Murn, the Siegersdorf and the Welsers von Welsersheimb. The brothers Wolf Andree and Otto Freiherrn von Siegersdorf took Thunau in lease until the end of the inheritance negotiations, until Franz Joseph Freiherr von Putterer obtained rule in 1715 by settlement. He died as early as 1716 and the estimate showed that the castle building was in very poor condition. Since many heirs had to be made, the license was given for sale, which was also given to Wolf Siegmund Freiherrn von Jabornig for around 10,000 fl in 1717. His daughter Maria Josefa Freiin von Seenuß (since 1754) sold Thunau in 1782 to Johann Baptist von Mosmüller.
1793 – today
This was followed in 1793 by Maria Anna Countess Lengheim, Leopold Edler von Warnhauser, in 1817 Ernst Edler von Purgay, Simon Tengg, and Franz Müller. After this, in 1854, Thunau passed to a large number of heirs. In 1888 the estate was finally deleted from the land table.
Today nothing can be seen of the former castle. Only one part of Oberhaag , where the castle once stood, is still called Tunau today. The bell of the former castle chapel hangs today in the bell tower of the funeral hall and the Thunau coat of arms was adopted by the community "as a symbol that sovereignty from the family property of the nobility has returned to the community" .
Name variants
Thunau, Tuna, Tunau, Tunnau, Thurnau, Tvnowe, Tunowe, Tunaw, Tvennowe, Thuman
See also
literature
- Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria. Leykam, Graz 1995, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 .
Web links
- Oberhaag municipality
- Land of Thunau (PDF; 131 kB)