Wazenberg Castle

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Wazenberg Castle in the 17th century, copper engraving by Peter Mungerstorf, from the Topographia Ducatus Carniolae modernae

The Wazenberg castle was the former crown land Krain , the part after the First World War Slovenia was. At the end of 1942 the building was attacked by partisans and completely destroyed.

location

Watzenberg Castle, excerpt from the map of the Strascha community, Neudegg district (today Mirna ), Neustadtl district (today Novo mesto ), folder no.289 from 1825

The building was first mentioned in a document at the beginning of the 14th century. At that time, however, it was still called Aich or Aych, as Valvasor narrated it. The Slovenes have always called it Dob, the Slovenian word for pedunculate oak . It was in Lower Carniola , the Dolenjska , part of today's Slovenia , on a small hill about two kilometers east of Mirna (Neudegg).

history

The first known owners were the Lords of Aych, who first built a tower near the later castle. Veriand and Ulrich von Aych were the first to be mentioned in documents so far - in 1302, Volker and 1362 Erhard von Aych appear in 1320. After the Lords of Aych went out, the Pyrsch, the Lamberg and the Auersperg sat in the castle. Wolf Engelbert von Auersperg gave the property to Dionys Schränckler as a gift for loyal service. In 1599 his son Wolf Engelbert Schränckler inherited the estate.

His daughter Rosine, who was married to Georg Andreas von Weichselberg , sold the estate to the brothers Peter and Georg Freiherren von Wazen in 1621. They tore down the old tower and built a comfortable castle in its place, which they renamed Wazenberg after their name.

After Peter's death in 1667, the brothers Georg and Michael von Wazen shared the estate. The last Wazen to own the estate was Karl Wazen, who sold it to Franz Bernhard Graf von Lamberg in 1723. In 1740, Jobst Weickhard Barbo Graf von Wachsenstein (also: Waxenstein) appears as the owner.

The estate remained the property of the Barbo family until the end of World War II, the last owner was Anton Graf Barbo. It then passed on to his daughter Stella, who married Count Felix Logothetti in 1935 .

Massacre on Wazenberg on December 26th and 27th, 1942

Soon after the German armed forces invaded Yugoslavia , resistance to the German and Italian occupiers and their atrocities began to rise in Slovenia. Within the Yugoslav partisan movement , the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPJ) soon became the strongest force. Across the country, acts of sabotage and murders of actual or supposed collaborators increased .

The situation in the area of Wazenberg also became more uncertain from day to day. That is why Count Logothetti asked the Italian military administration for military protection. As a result, 30 Italian soldiers were stationed on Wazenberg. All windows on the ground floor had bars and were also walled up, leaving only loopholes. The windows on the other floors were unsecured, and the Italian soldiers stationed there withdrew all guards at night. In a major military operation that extended to the whole of the Mirna Valley, in German Neiringtal from Trebnje , Wazenberg, Šentrupert and Mokronog-Trebelno , the partisans of the Gubec brigade attacked Wazenberg at night on December 26, 1942. The brigade's commander at the time was Lado Ambrožič-Novljan, later a member of the Yugoslav People's Army (JLA), retired in 1953 with the rank of major general. The action lasted two days. During this time, all the residents in the castle were murdered, the buildings looted and reduced to rubble.

After the Second World War , a correctional facility was built on the same site.

swell

  • Lado Ambrožič-Novljan, Gubčeva brigada, poglavje Dob - The Gubecbrigade, part of DOB, Knjižnica NOV in POS 8, Ljubljana 1972
  • Dušan Bravničar, Dob - fašistov grob - Dob - grave of the fascists , appeared before the end of the war (hectographed) in the library of the high command of the NOV and OP,
  • Vida Brest (partisan and poet), Naša brigada jim je voščila božič - Our brigade wished you a Merry Christmas , in: Tovariš - Comrade, No. 37, 1952
  • Ivo Žajdela, Zasuta usta - Stuffed Mouths in: Delo - Die Arbeit (magazine), Pisma bralcev - Letters to the Editor, July 17, 1999
  • Jože Snoj. Gavžen hrib - Crepe (castle) mountain , novel
  • Newspaper Glas naroda - Voice of the People, the oldest newspaper of Slovenian workers in the USA (New York), June 17, 1943, vol. 51, no. 116, p. 1.
  • Jutro newspaper - The Morning, March 28, 1943

literature

  • Johann Weichard von Valvasor , The Honor of the Duchy of Carniola , III. Theil, XI. Book, p. 624, Laybach - Nuremberg 1689
  • Majda Smole: Graščine na nekdanjem Kranjskem (Lords in the former Carniola) , p. 133, Ljubljana 1982
  • Ivan Stopar: Grajske stavbe v osrednji Sloveniji, II. Del Dolenjska, Porečje Temenice in Mirne (castle building in central Slovenia, II. Dolenjska part, catchment area of ​​Temenitz and Neiring), Ljubljana 2002

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Coordinates: 45 ° 57 ′ 12.8 "  N , 15 ° 5 ′ 19.2"  E