Hollenegg Castle
Hollenegg Castle is located in the municipality of Bad Schwanberg in the Deutschlandsberg district in western Styria ( Austria ).
history
The name "Hollenegg" appears for the first time in 1163 in a document from Admont Abbey , although the castle complex is probably older: This is indicated by Saints Aegidius and Bartholomew, to whom the castle chapel is consecrated and who were hardly considered modern in the 12th century. A forerunner castle, built on a former estate, protected the connecting road over the Koralpe from Styria to Carinthia. The Hollenegger family were ministerials to the Archbishop of Salzburg, and the castle was their ancestral seat. Abel von Hollenegg was the leader of the Styrian contingent at the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529. In 1550, he also commissioned Francesco Marmoro with the renovation of the palace in the Renaissance style based on the example of the Graz country house . His son Friedrich, active as a councilor to Archduke Karl II , continued the renovation work. As a spokesman for the Protestant estates, he traveled to Prague to see Emperor Rudolf II in 1591 to obtain decrees against Protestantism - but this project failed. The Hollenegger male line died out in 1593, heavily in debt.
In 1653, Hollenegg Castle came into the possession of Count Saurau , who only three years later sold it to the Barons of Puechbaumb. Maximilian Graf Khuenburg on Deutschlandsberg came into possession of the property in 1686; he had the interior renewed and the church expanded.
owner
The castle has been owned by the Princes of Liechtenstein since 1821 and serves as their summer residence. The manorial estate of Deutschlandsberg-Hollenegg was bought by Prince Johann I for his son Franz de Paula , the great-grandfather of the head of state of Liechtenstein Franz Josef II .
Architecture and design
The former castle was built around 1200; the construction of a residential wing in the 19th century created two inner courtyards. The church, consecrated in 1778, is located in the first courtyard, a battlement with two-storey arcades surrounds the square; the second, inner courtyard is surrounded by residential buildings. The arbor in this courtyard dates from the 17th century. The staircase from 1577 that leads to the ballroom is attributed to Francesco Marmoro or Benedikt de la Porta. The oldest part of Hollenegg Castle is a square tower at the northeast corner, the two round towers in the northwest and southeast come from the time of Friedrich von Hollenegg and served as cannon towers. An inscription with a coat of arms from 1573 on the Renaissance portal next to the north-west tower commemorates Friedrich von Hollenegg . Until 1825 there were external fortifications, of which hardly anything has survived today. Its former course can only be traced in the garden terraces.
Interior
Most of the interior fittings of Hollenegg Castle date from the 18th century. Additions come from other castles such as Limberg (coffered ceiling in the blue room and two inlay portals) and the Riegersburg . The ballroom in the north wing was designed by Philipp Carl Laubmann in 1750 with architectural paintings that imitate a pillared hall that is open on all sides. The ceiling painting by Felix Barazutti is from 1885 and shows Greek deities as a pictorial program. Representation rooms are decorated with stucco ceilings from the Rococo , French wall coverings and stoves from the 16th and 17th centuries. The guest rooms on the second floor are designed in a neo-Gothic style.
Parish church of Hollenegg
The Hollenegg parish church is located within the listed castle . She is the St. Aegydius consecrated. A church is mentioned in a document around 1165, and Hollenegg was first mentioned as a parish in 1445.
A new building took place in 1778. The church received a new organ in 1891, the previous organ was transferred to St. Wolfgang .
Castle Park
The castle park is in the system, perhaps partly in the 1580s back. The park decorations of the terrace garden next to the lap, which were probably created after the castle walls were razed in 1825, partly dates from the 19th century. The orchards and the farm garden were laid out between 1820 and 1850. The property has beautiful old trees. Two beeches in front of the castle were planted on the occasion of the wedding of Prince Alfred von und zu Liechtenstein with his cousin Princess Henriette von Liechtenstein , which took place on April 26, 1865.
The park is one of the most important garden architectural monuments in Austria and is mentioned in the Monument Protection Act ( No. 37 in the appendix to Section 1, Paragraph 12 of the DMSG ). Parts of it are publicly available.
Horse stable
The castle's former stable , a little to the north, is used as the event and information center for Hollenegg Castle and the Hollenegg parish. It is also a listed building.
gallery
GM Vischer, Hollenegg 1681
Hollenegg from St Wolfgang
Park side
West side
North side
Entrance portal
Keep and access
Former horse stable
literature
- Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn (Ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . Schroll, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 , p. 183-184 .
Web links
- Entry via Hollenegg to Burgen-Austria
- Hollenegg Castle in Styria. In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung, 1883 on Anno (Austrian Newspapers Online)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Entry about Hollenegg Castle in Burgen-Austria
- ↑ Parish Hollenegg. catholic-kirche-steiermark.at.
- ↑ District topography : Helmut-Theobald Müller (ed.), Gernot Peter Obersteiner (overall scientific management): History and topography of the Deutschlandsberg district. Styrian Provincial Archives and District Authority Deutschlandsberg. Graz-Deutschlandsberg 2005. In the series: Great historical regional studies of Styria. Founded by Fritz Posch †. Volume 3. ISBN 3-901938-15-X . Second part of the Bezirkslexikon, pages 157–163.
- ^ Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn: Dehio Handbook - Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs: Styria (excluding Graz). Topographical inventory of monuments, ed. from the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Monument Research, Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 , p. 184.
- ^ A b Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria: Gardens and parks from the Renaissance to around 1930 . tape 2 Upper Austria, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol . Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-205-99352-0 , Hollenegg Schloßpark , p. 514 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Gerhard Fischer: Two beeches tell of happiness in love. 150 years ago love marriage in the Liechtenstein family. In: Weststeirische Rundschau . No. 18, volume 2015 (May 1, 2015), 88th volume. ZDB -ID 2303595-X . Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2015, p. 3.
Coordinates: 46 ° 47 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 15 ° 13 ′ 29.8 ″ E