Pux Castle

Parts of the facade and the roof of Pux Castle can be seen in the background on the left

Pux Castle is in the village of Pux in the municipality of Teufenbach-Katsch in the Murau district in Styria . The castle stands as a successor to the Pux castle ruins next to the preserved Pux castle chapel .

history

The old castle fell victim to a fire on Christmas night of 1779 and fell into ruins. The new castle was rebuilt in 1911 next to the preserved castle chapel, and the aristocratic Pranckh family moved the ancestral seat from Pranckh Castle to Pux Castle.

Building description

The new building of the castle was built from unplastered broken stone and house stones.

Personalities

• Hans von Pranckh lived in the castle from 1921 to 1945 and, as a former lieutenant in the Bavarian Army, was district leader in the Styrian Homeland Security ( Heimwehr ).
• Georg Pranckh was born in the castle in 1926 and was a member of the National Council as a politician (ÖVP).

Castle chapel

The Pux Castle Chapel stands free-standing in the former outer courtyard of the Pux castle ruins south of the new Pux Castle. The Roman Catholic palace chapel , consecrated to St. Aegidius , belongs to the Murau deanery in the Graz-Seckau diocese .

architecture

The retracted choir square connects to the late Romanesque rectangular nave. To the north of the choir is the sacristy extension with the year 1594. The neo-Gothic roof turret is located at the eastern end of the nave.

The choir has a groin vault. The nave has a wooden coffered ceiling and a western wooden gallery from the Renaissance. The frescoes of Christ in the mandorla , evangelist symbols, angels, saints in the choir and on the pointed triumphal arch are from the 13th century and were exposed in 1912 and secured in 1957.

Furnishing

The altar from 1676 has a painted antependium around 1730. The organ from 1693 shows Peter and Paul on the side and Cäcila and King David in the middle.

Christoph von Pranckh names a death shield 1616. A tombstone Adam von Pranckh, died 1591, shows the relief knee figures before the resurrection of Christ and caryatids to the side , probably by Philibert Pocabello.

literature

• Robert Baravalle: Castles and Palaces of Styria , Graz 1961, page 500ff.
• The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . Pux, castle, castle ruins, castle chapel. P. 383.
• Kurt Woisetschläger , Peter Krenn : The art monuments of Austria. Dehio-Handbuch Steiermark: (excluding Graz) . Ed .: Federal Monuments Office . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 , p. 383 .
• Martinic Georg Clam: Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Landesverlag, 1991

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) 1982 . P. 383.

Coordinates: 47 ° 8 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 14 ° 20 ′ 20 ″  E