Welzenegg Castle

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West view with entrance portal

Welzenegg Castle is a castle built in the 16th century in the east of the Carinthian state capital Klagenfurt am Wörthersee .

history

The castle was built in 1575 by Viktor Welzer von Eberstein and his wife Elisabeth, a née Khevenhüller , in the east of the city of Klagenfurt, originally as a moated castle. In 1578 Archduke Karl of Inner Austria gave him permission to name the castle after his name. In 1629 the castle was sold to Alexius Frey by a descendant of the builder, along with the castle keep belonging to it. Georg Nikolaus Graf von Rosenberg bought it in 1671 . Wolfgang Andreas Rosenberg had the palace decorated in baroque style. It remained in the possession of the Orsini-Rosenberg family until 1983.

Building description

Welzenegg Castle is a large, three- story Renaissance building. The top floor is a dwarf floor. At the four corners there are protruding towers with a low pyramidal roof and ox-eye windows. The windows on the upper floor date from the construction period, including twin and triple windows with wrought iron bars. On the south side there is a six-axis extension from 1919, it has round terraces that rest on coupled columns and is connected to the old building.

The entrance portal in the west is arched and has a marble inscription panel with the double coat of arms of the builder and his wife. The entrance hall is wide and arched with a stitch cap. The arcade courtyard is square, the number of arcades on the upper floor is doubled compared to the ground floor. In the arches of the arcades there is sgraffito decoration in circular medallions.

The interiors were rich, partly decorated with stucco that has largely been lost. The baroque stucco in the former chapel was created by Gabriel Wittini at the end of the 17th century , the stucco in the great hall around 1725 by Killian Pittner . Four rooms had wooden ceilings, of which only one coffered ceiling from 1672 has survived. In the chapel the stucco with the monogram of Jesus and Mary, angel heads and bunches of fruit has been preserved.

  • East side of Welzenegg Castle

  • South side of Welzenegg Castle

  • South-east gallery of Welzenegg Castle

supporting documents

  • Siegfried Hartwagner: Klagenfurt City (= Austrian Art Monograph , Volume X). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg (reprinted 1994, without ISBN), page 245f.
  • Dehio Handbook Carinthia . 2nd Edition. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-7031-0522-4 , pages 398f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kärntner Tageszeitung , accessed on March 23, 2009.

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Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 41.7 ″  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 56.1 ″  E