Wintergreen Castle
The Castle wintergreen located in the town Ramingstein in the district Tamsweg in the state of Salzburg (Schloßgasse 58).
history
In 1188 Otto von Machland gave his possessions in Lungau to the Salzburg Cathedral Chapter ; this remained the basic relief the lord of the rule Ramingstein. Wintergrün and Finstergrün Castle formed the main fortifications on the Mur against Styria . 1459 declared Archbishop Sigismund the mine area to a Freiung . The mountain judge was empowered to judge all disputes except those that resulted in the death penalty. The district judge in Moosham was responsible for this . The administrative center of this clearance became Wintergrün Castle.
It became the residence of the Mooshamer family, who called themselves from Mosshaimb zu Ramingstein . The son of Wilhelm von Moosham, who died in 1556, and Anna von Haunsperg , Seyfried von Moosham, built a chapel in his castle in honor of St. Helena and the discovery of the cross . He and his wife Helena Freiin von Teuffenbach donated two weekly masses to be read as well as on the day of the finding of the cross (3 May each). The priests reading mass were to be accommodated in the castle. The sisters of Seyfried Elisabeth and Ursula were married to the brothers Christoph and Hans Weitmoser zu Winkl , Ramseiden and Grueb. After Hans Weitmoser died in 1603 without heirs, the daughters of Christoph Weitmoser, who died in the same year, inherited the rule. Regina, married to Hans Friedrich Fuchs von Fuxberg, received the old Ramingstein Castle when the estate was shared with her sister . Her husband transferred the Mass Foundation to the Church of St. Margareten and in 1664 it again to the Nonnberg Monastery .
In 1647 the siblings Wilhelm Carl, Ursula and Eva Jocher followed; In 1658 the rule passed to Andree Salzleitner and in 1661 to his son Franz and other co-heirs. In 1662, the ownership of Balthasar Plockh of Arnholz on Niederaichbach, caregiver of Mauterndorf sold. He had only acquired the castle so that the chapel, which was well built and provided with the necessary regalia, at St. Helena, would not fall into any other hands or fall into disrepair . In 1667 he sold the property to the Ramingstein mining trade. In 1684, consideration was given to accommodating the vicar and sacristan in the Schlössl zu Ramingstein, alwo jezo the mountain judge and the Ranttner, and according to the Vememen there are special chapels because large rooms were available for all church tasks. Since the distance to the St. Achaz parish church was too great, this project was not carried out. In 1750, the Fronbote was assigned an apartment there until his own house was built. Repairs were not necessary, only the clerk had to remove her chickens from the rooms. In 1759 the building was completely renovated and the chapel was consecrated again on September 16 of the same year by Archbishop Sigmund von Schrattenbach to St. Helena. He donated various relics (of St. Urban, Benedict, Creszenzius, Deodat, Chrysostom and Daria) and awarded a forty-year indulgence . At the request of the miners, the fairs that had not been held since 1699 were reintroduced. The palace chapel was given the rank of archbishop's court chapel. But the next year the portable altar was handed over to the mountain caretaker in Gastein for safekeeping.
In 1778 the mine was closed. In 1781, an exact inventory was made of the establishment of the St. Helena Chapel. In 1806 the mine was reopened. In 1825 the kuk Bergwerks ärar sold the property to Prince Schwarzenberg and the kuk Salinen Direktion Salzburg handed over the entire complex to the Schwarzenberg'sche Oberverweseramt Murau in 1827. Since the lock was no longer needed for mining operations, the Schwarzenberg commissioner handed the keys to the chapel to the Austro-Hungarian district forester Mathias Klettner. The archbishop's consistory in Salzburg objected to this, and a legal dispute arose over it, which only ended with the fire in Ramingstein.
Wintergrün Castle today
On July 26, 1841, a devastating forest fire ravaged Ramingstein, which also affected the castle. As if by a miracle, the altar of the chapel was spared. In 1892 the south wing of the castle was demolished and the tower of the chapel torn down. Of the essentially Gothic building, only the rococo-shaped north wing, the so-called Verweserhaus , remained.
The castle has been owned by the Schwarzenberg family since 1827. The owners are: Josef Schwarzenberg, Johann Adolf (1840), Adolf Josef (1900), Johann (1920), Dr. Adolf (1940), Dr. Heinrich (1951) and Dr. Karl Johannes (1967). 1970 to 1973 the building was repaired and refurbished. Today the building houses the Schwarzenberg forest administration and apartments for employees. Nothing is reminiscent of its former use as an administrative center for the Ramingstein and Lungau mining operations.
The palace building has three floors and a hipped roof . The main facade is equipped with anti-glare pilasters. The windows are highlighted by cranked pilaster strips .
literature
- Friederike Zaisberger & Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Pongau, Pinzgau, Lungau . Birch series, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85030-037-4 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 30.1 ″ N , 13 ° 50 ′ 15.6 ″ E