Zigguln Castle
Zigguln Castle is a property on Kreuzbergl northwest of the city center of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, first mentioned in a document in 1547 and expanded into a castle in the first half of the 17th century .
History of construction and ownership
The name Zikullen appears for the first time in a document in 1496, it is derived from Secula , a kind of ax that was used as a clearing device in the Middle Ages. In 1547 Zigguln was mentioned as an Adam Hofstetter's Hube (small farm). His daughter Ursula married the Klagenfurt master builder and later first mayor of the city Christoph Windisch († 1597). Zigguln had been in its possession since 1589. Her daughter Regina, who had inherited Zigguln and was married to the Protestant Lattacher, emigrated in the course of the Counter Reformation at the beginning of the 17th century. The property was sold to a trade called Lebmacher. Ownership changed to a hammer mill via a witness office administrator. At that time, Zigguln was probably converted into a country palace. In 1633 the Jesuit order acquired the small property and used it as a student residence and a recreation center for the Jesuit school, which was located at Klagenfurt Cathedral .
After the order was dissolved in Austria in 1773, its possession and with it the castle became state property. Maria Theresia initially leased Zigguln to the military orphanage on Deutenhofenstrasse, and later donated the property to this institution. The property changed hands several times in the 19th century: Matthias Galler bought Zigguln in 1825, Gottfried Ebner von Ebenthal in 1829, and in 1843 it passed to Maria Mühlbacher nee by inheritance. von Ebner († 1855). In 1848 it was noted in the country board that there is a kettle beer brewery in Zigguln and that there has been a restaurant at this location for a long time. He bought real estate and townhouses, moved his residence to Klagenfurt, moved, and returned to Zigguln or the neighboring Bichlhof, which he had acquired in 1883.
The property passed from Maria Mühlbacher to Paul Mühlbacher, who was born in Bleiberg in 1838 and was still a minor in the 1850s, who was then released in 1860 "from his father's authority", ie was declared of age. Paul Mühlbacher was later for many years President of the Bleiberger Bergwerks-Union, founded in 1868 and headquartered in Klagenfurt, and a representative of the large estates in the Carinthian state parliament. He died at the age of 82 in 1920, his inheritance was taken over by Maria Balzar, Emil Mühlbacher, Dr. Hans Mühlbacher and Paula von Blazekovic. From 1927 Hans Mühlbacher was the sole owner of Zigguln.
In 1952 Paul Mühlbacher the Younger entered the land register as the owner, and in 1956 the Volkskeller-Gesellschaft Klagenfurt bought the property from him, which in 1960 left it to the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees. In 1985 the electrical engineer Robert Tschuk bought Zigguln and it is still privately owned today. In 1996 a restoration of the inner courtyard was carried out as well as a plaster renovation.
Building description
Zigguln Castle is a simple, square, two-story building with an inner courtyard with the exception of the three-story south wing. The original building from the 16th century is now the protruding middle part of the south-east wing. In its central axis is the end of the 16th Century from chlorite made portal rectangular skylight . The wrought-iron balcony on swan consoles and the cast-iron , two-storey loggia construction were added in the 19th century, when the entire outer facade was redesigned. In the inner courtyard, the corridor resting on cast-iron consoles on the north side is remarkable.
literature
- Dehio Handbook Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 399.
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Klagenfurt city . St. Peter, Salzburg, (= Austrian Art Monograph , Volume X) p. 199. (Reprinted in 1994, without ISBN)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hartwagner 1994, p. 199
Web links
- Entry via Schloss Zigguln to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 46 ° 38 ′ 7 ″ N , 14 ° 17 ′ 32 ″ E