Wolfsberg Castle (Carinthia)

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Wolfsberg Castle

The Wolfsberg Castle , nowadays Schloss Henckel-Donnersmarck , situated on a hill north of the city Wolfsberg in Carinthia .

history

Front side of the main building

The estate was owned by the Bamberg diocese from 1007 . The castle was first mentioned in 1178 in a document from the St. Paul Abbey. It was the prerequisite for the development of the settlement of the same name, which rose to become a city in the full legal sense in 1289. From the second quarter of the 14th century until the sale of the entire Bamberg property in Carinthia to the Austrian state in 1759, the castle served as the residence of the Bamberg vice cathedral, which represented the bishop in local manorial affairs. The structure, which consists of two irregular, interconnected tracts, was converted into a fortress by Italian builders in the 16th century to protect it from the approaching Turks . At the same time, the complex was expanded to include residential wings, gates and towers. In 1561 a bell tower was built.

In 1846, the industrial pioneer Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck acquired the Wolfsberg estate, mainly because of the wealth of wood and water that he needed to run his ironworks. From 1847 to 1853, he had the castle converted into a castle in the English Tudor style by the two Viennese architects Johann Romano and August Schwendenwein and furnished the interior with valuable furnishings. Almost nothing can be seen of the former Renaissance building .

The former riding school

In addition to the main building itself, the former riding school, built in 1855 in neo-Romanesque style, is a listed building .

The palace park also dates from the time it was built in the 1850s. The extensive landscape garden is one of the more important garden architectural monuments in Austria and is mentioned in the Monument Protection Act ( No. 7 in the appendix to Section 1, Paragraph 12 DMSG )

The current owner of the property is the Kärntner Montanindustrie  GmbH, which rents the halls for events and weddings. The managing director is Count Andreas Henckel von Donnersmarck. The castle restaurant is run by a Stölzl family.

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia. Revised edition, 3rd, expanded and improved edition, edited by Gabriele Russwurm-Biró. Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , pp. 1077-1079.
  • Wilhelm Deuer: Castles and palaces in Carinthia . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0307-6 , pp. 252ff.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 46 ° 50 ′ 31 ″  N , 14 ° 50 ′ 55 ″  E