Weyer Castle (Frohnleiten)

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Weyer Castle

The Weyer Castle is in Rothleiten in the municipality Frohnleiten located in Styria Castle . Its history goes back to the 13th century. The current shape of the castle dates from the 16th and 18th centuries. Today it serves as a retirement home.

location

The castle is in the cadastral community of Rothleiten, which belongs to the Frohnleiten community . It is located near the mouth of the Gamsgraben in the Murtal . There it was supposed to protect the road from Frohnleiten to Göss , the so-called Diebsweg (Deubsweg).

history

Originally owned by the Eppensteiners, the first fortress was built at the beginning of the 13th century by the Rabensteiners, a family of Eppenstein servants. In the middle of the 13th century, the next owners, the Counts of Pfannberg , had this fortress expanded into a moated castle . Around 1400, Weichhardt von Weyer was named as a servant on the property. After the Pfannberger family died out, the estate came into the possession of the Counts of Cilli and, in 1373, that of the Counts of Montfort . In 1375 the property came to Gebhard von Waldstein (Weyer) as a fief. The fiefdom changed several times in the following years before the estate was divided between the Eibiswalders and the Ratmannsdorfern after 1451. Christof von Ratmannsdorf wanted to design a new home on the property and therefore bought several properties in the area in 1489 and replaced the second part of Sigmund von Eibiswald's property in 1502. In 1560 the Protestant Wilhelm von Ratmannsdorf took over the castle and largely gave it its current appearance.

The property was owned by the Ratmannsdorf family until 1647, before the widow of Georg Wilhelm von Ratmannsdorf brought it into her second marriage to Ferdinand Ernst Graf Herberstein. In 1659 it was bought by Sebastian Hayd zu Haydegg and converted into a Fideikommiss . Until 1822 the castle was owned by the von Haydegg family. They carried out renovations again and again and refurbished the castle chapel in 1750. In 1822 it was acquired by Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy at a foreclosure auction. It was merged with the Pfannberg rule . Since 1872 it has been in the possession of the Mayr-Melnhof family , who had the castle restored and set up a retirement home for the employees of their company.

description

The castle was originally a water castle built in the 13th century . It was rebuilt several times in the 16th and 17th centuries. Parts of the moat have been preserved on the north and east sides of the castle. Today the castle is a three-storey, hook-shaped building with three-storey arcades on the courtyard side . The courtyard is closed off by a narrow, baroque onion dome with a lantern . The facade of the eastern wing is flanked by two polygonal, tower-like projections and is designed using the sgraffito technique. A low gate leads to the castle chapel, which contains a crucifix from the 14th century. The original altar was moved to Neu-Pfannberg Castle . In the building there is an octagonal hall from 1590.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Weyer, Frohnleiten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria . Leykam, Graz 1995, ISBN 3-7011-7323-0 , p. 191–192 (first edition: 1961).
  2. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 616 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 48.7 "  N , 15 ° 18 ′ 9.2"  E