City fortifications Friesach
The city fortifications of Friesach , a city in the north of Carinthia , are known for their intact city walls and the still-filled moat .
history
A first wall ring was built around 1200. But this first wall ring was difficult to defend because of its vastness and the city of Friesach was conquered three times in 1275, 1289 and 1292. The decision to build the new, smaller curtain wall was made in the 13th century. The Sankt Veiter and the Neumarkter Tor were demolished in the course of the road widening in 1845, the Olsator in 1873 after the construction of the station in 1873.
First curtain wall
The first wall ring encompassed the Dominican monastery and the Neumarkt suburb. It started on Petersberg in the direction of Virgilienberg and ran up to a hundred meters to the east and north of today's city wall. In the area of the Heiligenblutkirche , fragmentary parts of the wall have survived, the eastern part can only be partially recognized. In the area of the Dominican monastery, it was identical to today's garden wall. From the north corner of the cloister garden it led southwest over Neumarkter Straße up the slope to the keep of Lavant Castle. In the middle of the 13th century, a wall was built from the north corner of the monastery garden along the Mühlbach in the direction of Geiersberg .
Second curtain wall
The second circular wall with a trapezoidal floor plan is around 820 meters long and extends at both ends to the Berglehen on Virgilienberg and Petersberg and includes the fortifications on Virgilienberg and Petersberg.
The city fortification consists of the actual wall, ten to eleven meters high, and a lower wall in front of it about nine meters away. This is followed by a city moat about 15 meters wide and almost ten meters deep, which is dug into the slope on Petersberg. The moat is fed from various groundwater sources and used to flow into the city sewer system, today the drain is at the southern end of the moat. The lower parts of the wall date from the late 13th century, younger sections from the first quarter of the 14th century, and the majority of the kennel wall and the battlements from the 15th century. In addition to the northern Neumarkter Tor, the eastern Olsator and the southern Sankt Veiter Tor, the fortification had the Heidentor on the slope west of the Virgilienberg and the Sacktor between Rotturm and Petersberg, which still exists today.
Rotturmanlage
The Rotturmanlage was built at the beginning of the 14th century above the Holy Blood Church at the point where the city was conquered by King Ottokar . The complex originally consisted of four defense towers, three of which are still preserved.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 154 f.
- Dieter Buck: In the realm of knights. Carinthia Verlag, Vienna - Graz - Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85378-596-6 , p. 152
- Wilhelm Deuer, Johannes Grabmayer: Transromanica. On the trail of the Romanesque in Carinthia - cultural hikes, vol. 1 . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-7084-0302-1 , p. 173 f.
Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 4 " N , 14 ° 24 ′ 30.8" E
