Thurnhof Palace (Hermagor)

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Thurnhof Castle, Hermagor, Carinthia

Thurnhof Castle is a former defense structure in the municipality of Hermagor-Pressegger See in the Hermagor district in Carinthia . The building is a listed building .

history

The defense structure could have been built to protect the green castle located about 1 kilometer to the northwest or to control the Gitschtalstraße. In 1342 a Henricus de Turri is mentioned in a document. But the building had already existed for a while, as the neighboring church of Maria Thurn, mentioned in 1261, may have been a chapel belonging to the castle. A Wastl von Thurn is also mentioned in a document in 1533. The property was probably owned by the Grössing family around 1570, because their coat of arms can be found with this year above the high altar of the neighboring church. In 1616, Archduke Ferdinand enfeoffed Gregor Rosspacher with the farm, whose descendants sold him to the Abbot of Arnoldstein . In 1702 the Thurnhof came back to the Grössing family: Abbot Amandus sold it to Jakob Adam Grössing, a tax collector from Lessach . The Grössings were ennobled in 1708 and were at times also owned by the Grünburg. In 1786, Leopold Anton von Grössing sold the Thurnhof to Johann Seebacher, a master builder. In the 19th century, the brewery owner Maximilian Lackner temporarily owned the Thurnhof. The building has been owned by the Lampersberger family since around 1870. In 1883 the building is described as a former castle, "today almost a ruin".

construction

The Thurnhof today consists of a four-storey, square, unplastered defense tower made of quarry stone masonry and an attached, rustic-looking two-storey house. The tower dates from the 15th century, has a side length of about 6 to 7 meters, and the bottom two floors are inhabited. The attached house was built in the Renaissance period , in the late 16th century: in one room there is a well-preserved wooden beamed ceiling with the year 1593 engraved on it. On the south side of the building, around a walled up window, remains of a sgraffito frame from this period can be seen.

literature

  • Hermann Wiessner, Gerhard Seebach, Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka: Castles and palaces in Carinthia (Carinthia III), castles and palaces around Hermagor, Spittal / Drau, Villach. 2nd ext. Ed., Vienna 1986, pp. III / 27f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Explanations of the historical atlas of the Austrian regional court map. A. Holzhausen, Vienna 1966. Part 4, p. 95.
  2. ↑ Mittheilungen der Kaiserl. Royal Central Commission for Monument Preservation in Vienna. Vienna 1883. p. 135.
  3. ^ Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 952.

Coordinates: 46 ° 37 '52 "  N , 13 ° 21' 50.8"  E