Schloss Velden

Schloss Velden is located on the western shore of the Wörthersee in the field of community Velden am Wörthersee in Carinthia.

History

Builder of the castle's original construction was Khevenhüller Bartholomew (1539-1613), Baron of Aichelberglifte, who belonged to the influential Carinthian noble family of Khevenhüller. Khevenhüller was both entrepreneurs and functionaries of the Carinthian estates and took it as such until Klagenfurt Viscount ( 1581). As he shuttled constantly between Landskron Castle, the ancestral home of the Khevenhüller, and Klagenfurt, he acquired in 1585 about halfway in the farming village of Velden on the west bank of Lake Wörth an estate, initially there was only one mill. He had built a house there, right on the lake, and gradually with considerable expense ( 23,000 guilders) to expand to a prestigious estate. The actual mansion according to the inscription on the garden portal in 1603 finally finished castle was a dreieinhalbgeschossiger rectangular building with four corner towers polygonal.

The castle remained after Barthlmäs first death in the family until the Protestant nobility, to which also included the Khevenhüller 1629 Carinthia had to leave. 1639 appropriated to the President of the Court Chamber, which was entrusted with the management of confiscated goods, Siegmund Ludwig von Dietrich Stein, the Schloss Velden. The property remained until 1861 owned by the Ditrichsteins his representative use for family parties, however, is occupied only until 1716. In 1762 a fire destroyed much of the castle, which was then restored only provisionally, with the corner towers had to be partially removed. It was then only used as a coaching inn and guest house.

Only in the course of the upcoming Wörthersee- tourism at the end of the 19th century acquired the Viennese porcelain producer Ernst Wahliss which has been the Pörtschacher on the Peninsula, the Park Hotel and a whole villa complex had erected, in 1890 the dilapidated property in Velden. He had rebuilt the building by the architect Wilhelm Hess in neo-Renaissance style, where the facade was reconstructed according to ancient views. The rooms inside were prepared for use as an exclusive hotel complex. More and expansions followed in the 1920s and 1930s under the direction of Franz Baumgartner, most recently in 1993 an exterior restoration.

In 1952 the Castle Hotel also served as a filming location for movies and television productions, the most famous among them the TV series is a lock on the Wörthersee ( 1990-92 ); to their lead actor Roy Black recalled a memorial bust in the café across from the castle. Gunter Sachs acquired Schloss Velden in 1990 and left it to renovate consuming. In 2003 he sold it to a real composite, this eröffnetete with the U.S. West Paces Hotel Group under the brand " Capella " the Castle Hotel at Pentecost 2007 new.

In 2011 it was sold by Hypo Alpe Adria to the Amisola Immobilien AG, which is owned by Karl Wlaschek. The hotel will be since 2012 by the FalkensteinerMichaeler Tourism Group.

Specifications

The great palace on a rectangular plan has four lateral corner towers crested roofs. The eastern, facing the lake front has three storeys, the front facing the park two storeys. The rustic north portal of the building is designated by the year 1603 and is flanked by banded pilasters. It is located between two obelisks an essay with the coat of arms of Bartholomew Khevenhüller and his three wives. From the north portal, a passageway leads to one of the corner towers. Another remnant from the time it was built, the Biforenfenster above the arched west door.