Trautenfels Castle
Trautenfels Castle is a castle in the municipality of Stainach-Pürgg in the Liezen district in Styria . It is located on the Enns on a rocky outcrop at the foot of the Grimming at 673 m above sea level. A.
history
The building was first mentioned in a document in 1260/62 in the possession of the Salzburg Archbishopric . It was located at the intersection of the salt road with the route through the Ennstal and served as a dam . Abbot Heinrich von Admont took possession of the castle in a coup d' état in 1289 and had it largely destroyed with the help of the Ennstal peasants who were dependent on him. Then the castle came into sovereign hands and was rebuilt and managed by a carer together with Wolkenstein Castle . The castle was called Neuhaus until the 16th century . In the middle of the 15th century, the caretaker Wolfgang Praun managed to keep Neuhaus as his own. However, he was stripped of his rule in 1490 when he supported Matthias Corvinus . This was followed by the Hofmann von Grünbühel, from this period Renaissance frescoes with fantastic landscapes are remarkable, which were probably created by a northern Italian artist in 1563 on the occasion of the wedding of the then castle owner Ferdinand Hoffmann and Margarete von Harrach . The Barons von Praunfalk zu Neuhaus followed. In 1628, Emperor Ferdinand II, who was also Prince of Styria, issued a decree forbidding all Protestant nobles to stay and own property in the Prince's hereditary lands. You have been asked to convert or leave the country. Hanns Adam Freiherr von Praunfalk zu Neuhaus then emigrated, like many other Styrian landlords, to Nuremberg. In 1652 Alexander Schifer Freiherr von Feyling acquired the castle and built a rifle factory right next to it.
In 1664, the Styrian governor, Count Siegmund Friedrich von Trauttmansdorff (1623–1675), acquired the castle and had it completely rebuilt and refurbished in the Baroque style over the next few years. From 1670 to 1672 the castle got its present form and was called Trautenfels. The mighty rectangular building with (now roofed) inner courtyards and a mighty tower houses a representative ballroom on the first floor with significant interior decoration (1670 to 1673) and frescoes by Carpoforo Tencalla . The free-standing castle chapel and the five bastions are also worth mentioning. Count Trauttmansdorff combined the rulership with some of the estates in present-day Slovenia to form a Fideikommiß. Since his son died childless in the battle against the Turks in 1684, the rule came to Field Marshal Lieutenant Siegmund Joachim Count Trauttmansdorff from the Lower Austrian line of the family. In 1815 his descendants had to auction off the debt-ridden Trautenfels.
After numerous changes of ownership, Josef Graf Lamberg bought the castle in 1878. He was married to Anna Werndl, the daughter of the Steyr weapons manufacturer Josef Werndl, which gave him the necessary funds for the extensive renovation. In 1942, however, his widow had to sell Trautenfels to the Deutsche Reichspost, which wanted to set up a rest home for its employees here. As the legal successor to the Deutsche Reichspost, the Republic of Austria donated the castle to the Styrian Youth Hostel Association in 1959. The State of Styria had already set up a district museum in the representative rooms in 1951. In 1983 the municipality of Pürgg-Trautenfels bought the castle and leased it to the Trautenfels Castle Association, which has been trying to maintain the building and the museum ever since. In 1998 the landscape museum was reopened with a focus on forests and wood. The renovation and revitalization for museum use took place from 1988 to 1992 according to plans by architect Manfred Wolff-Plottegg . In 1992 the Styrian State Exhibition took place here. The castle is now a landscape museum (as part of the Styrian Universal Museum Joanneum ).
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Landscape museum in Trautenfels Castle
The castle presents around 1000 exhibits on the natural and cultural history of both the Ennstal and the Ausseerland in a permanent exhibition . In addition, Count Lamberg's antler room, the magnificent marble hall, the richly decorated state rooms and an observation tower are open to visitors. The museum has a total of 40,000 individual items as well as a specialized folklore library.
church
A few meters west of the castle on the same ridge are the ruins of the Protestant church Neuhaus. At the time of the Reformation, this was the most important religious center of the Protestants in the upper Ennstal. The church was built by the lords of the castle in Trautenfels. But it soon fell victim to the destruction caused by the Counter Reformation . In 1991 the remains of the building were archaeologically exposed and set up as a memorial.
reception
In 1975 the Bremen shipping company Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft “Hansa” named its newly acquired heavy cargo ship the Trautenfels in honor of the castle .
literature
- Karin Leitner-Ruhe: "But you should grab where you can." On the sale of Trautenfels Castle in 1941 by the Lamberg family to the Deutsche Reichspost , in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 113 (2010) 157-178.
- Katharina Krenn: Trautenfels Castle - a dynamic place for a museum? , in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 113 (2010) 250-270.
Web links
- Official website of Trautenfels Castle
- Entry via Trautenfels Castle to Burgen-Austria
- Entry on Trautenfels Castle in the Austria Forum (in the Heimatlexikon)
- Steiermark360, 360 ° panorama Castle Trautenfels (aerial view)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '8 " N , 14 ° 4' 51" E