Burg Mannsberg

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Burgmann mountain

The man mountain castle is a medieval hilltop castle in Carinthia. It stands in 691 meters above sea level on the southern exit of a mountain ridge in a dominant position over a wooded valley in the municipality of Kappel am Krappfeld. About 200 meters from the well-preserved castle is located somewhat below the ruins of a small castle.

History

The oldest written reference to the castle as a loco Magnesperc dates from the period 1065-1075, as the Noble Adalbero she gave to the diocese of Brixen under Bishop Altwin. The name means something like " Castle of manganese ," a man who is not documentary evidence.

Between 1162 and 1171 the brothers Hermann and Reginher sat at the castle. About the Men of cabinet tree, ministerial of the counts of locations castle, which were since 1190 owner of the castle, they came in 1301 as a fief of the Konrad cabinet Baumer at the Carinthian dukes. From the documentary formulation castrum maius immersive superior shows that it must have been given at this time in addition to the larger upper castle, a further, deeper. After further changes of ownership (1322 of the extinct Earls of Heunburg to the counts of Pfannberg ) it came after the death of the last Pfannbergers in the male line in 1362 to a dispute between the Counts of Gorizia and of Celje for the possession of Burgmann mountain. Duke Albrecht she finally spoke to Count Johann von Cilli, however, the 1372 died. Through the marriage of his widow with Hugo Graf von Montfort and compensation to the Cillier man mountain came a year later to the noble family of Montfort.

The castle remained until November 18, 1591 at the Montfort- Peggauern. On this day they of Bartholomew Khevenhüller of Aichelberglifte was acquired Baron on Landskron, Wernberg and Sommeregg and Owner of the Manor at Easter joke. After the Protestant family Khevenhüller saw, however, forced during the Counter Reformation to abandon their goods Carinthian, castle mountain man 1627 sold to the Gurk cathedral chapter.

Since 1874, Burgmann mountain is privately owned. It was at this time when the Viennese lawyer Alois Spitzer acquired it, partly in decay, but was restored by this. The property is still privately owned, most recently 1994/99 the courtyards and the interior of the castle were renovated.

Specifications

Despite the frequent change of ownership, the castle has barely changed since the 15th century. The highest part of the castle is standing on a polygonal plan, surrounded by a high perimeter wall main castle with a four-story, trapezoidal palace, which was built in the 14th century, consisting essentially of the masonry medieval festivals house. The irregular west wing with courtyard side arcades was 1549. The main castle is surrounded on three sides by a slightly deeper, long-range fore-castle with medieval and Renaissance elements. To the east of the perimeter is a three-storey gate tower, from which leads a kennel for Palas. Against this there is a fountain. To the east of the main building in 1627 a small chaplaincy ( parish building ) was added. The castle chapel is decorated with stucco work from 1711.

The rooms inside were designed in the 16th to 18th centuries. Noteworthy are a late baroque stucco ceiling from the period around 1730 and the beamed ceiling on the third floor, at the crest of the Khevenhüller Stubenbergs is attached.

200 meters south of the upper castle on a rocky head are the remains of the lower castle, which was probably built almost simultaneously on a hexagonal, irregular floor plan. The first two-story, 1.30 meter thick city walls on the ground floor has only a narrow, round-arched door opening, but has numerous arc slits on. In the northeast of the plant, the remains of the four-storey house parties are recognizable. In the courtyard the residential wing was added in the 13th century and increases the ring wall around two floors. Due to late medieval changes is believed that this castle was habitable until the 16th century. It was not until 1688 it is called " narrow but high square Thurn, oed and leave " called.