Castle falcon's stone “Falkenstein”(Obervellach) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Castle falcon's stone Alternativer Name Valchenstain, Walchenstein; (n): Upper falcon's stone, unterfalcon's stone (low falcon's stone) Time of origin: In 1164 Castle type: Height castle Condition: Ruin (upper falcon's stone); Receive or receive essential parts (low falcon's stone) Standish position: Ministerial Place: Obervellach-Pfaffenberg Geographic Situation 46 ° 55'20.4 ~ N, 13 ° 14'24.6 ~O Castle low falcon's stone The castle falcon's stone is a military arrangement in Obervellach in Carinthia which two spatially separate main buildings is also called upper falcon's stone and low falcon's stone. Table of content ~ 1 situation ~ 2 arrangements ~ 2.1 Castle upper falcon's stone ~ 2.2 Chapel ~ 2.3 Graduation model of the castle ~ 3 histories ~ 4 See also ~ 5 literatures Castle low falcon's stone in Mölltal with that Falcon's stone bridge of her Tanner's road Situation In the place situated to the east of Obervellach mountain Pfaffenberg stands on a rocky ridge, from the precipitous north flank Möllvalley grows, high over Mölltal federal highway (B 106) the castle falcon's stone. The rock, here from the tanner's road by a 67-m-long tunnel undergo became, the ruin carries upper falcon's stone. What one calls in our time castle unterfalcon's stone or low falcon's stone, no castle, but only one prework of the considerably higher situated castle was formerly upper falcon's stone. Both castles in the eastern region of the high tanners are removed approx. 25 walking minutes of each other. Arrangement The castle falcon's stone was protected by flying buttress and buttress before the fall and was surrounded by a military wall which was mended during the construction of the tanner's road and was secured, so that she could lighter get over the sprayings in the tunnel. Castle upper falcon's stone The old castle upper falcon's stone was a Romanesque type with 4 square 4-storied donjon at the mountain-sided entrance of the castle to which a cervical ditch was moved forward. The palace, only more in his basic square recognizably, is stood from especially strong walls. Also a small Romanesque chapel existed here in which at times even own chaplain did the God-official actions. Chapel In 1295 a Haenicus and in 1346 an Engelbrecht is mentioned as "Capellanus auf ober valchenstain". To the saint Johannes consecrated chapel was developed in 1772 by the Pfaffenberger farmers to a church and is still used. One recognizes by the church still to the Romanesque poor bay windows. It is a hall without apse, however, owns a 2-storey wooden loft. The high altar and a cover painting show the baptism of Christ. One sees comprehensive Gospel pictures in the pulpit. While the lateral Marien's altar and the other sacred pieces of art come from the 18th century, the castle church owns one more board picture of holy Barbara, the protective patroness of the miners that was made in the 16th century. Graduation model of the castle From the castle low falcon's stone a model gives in the graduation 1:87 (H0), which is produced by the German model road accessories manufacturer Kibri. History When the castle falcon's stone was built, cannot be ascertained any more with certainty. On every case counts them to the oldest castle constructions in the State of Carinthia and was mentioned already in 1164 for the first time in a document. At that time she was called Valchenstain, later also Walchenstein. As a result this name spelling indicates that it could concern here a Walchensiedlung. Among the little whales one understands the "embankment broads" how one also calls the Italians in the alpine country dialect. Really falcon's stone could be proved near the castle also a place "Walaha", so a welsch settlement, in a document. Presumably it concerns with these colonists the rests of the former inhabitants of the Roman Teurnia. To the advance of the Slavs scarcely before 600 A.D. these last Romans of the Norikums made way by the fact that they withdrew into the neighboring mountains. Donjon of the castle Messrs. von Falkenstein was a ministerial, so noble follower of the counts Upper falcon's stone (1986) of Görz. As third of this gender a Gumpoldus de Valchenstein that was expressly called ministerial of the Pustertaler count Engelbert is provable in 1164. Only from 1200 these noble counts of Görz were called. In 1271 Otto von Falkenstein judged in a quarrel between the Görzer count and the pencil Admont that was richly prosperous in the upper Möllvalley around new breaks in the area of stable in the Möllvalley. The Falkensteiner maintained amicable relations with the Benedictine's cloister of Millstatt. In 1272 a daughter stamped in Chotos of falcon's stone into the convent Millstatt. This existed since the 12th century beside the there one Man's cloister. As a dowry a heave left of the Falkensteiner of his daughter or to the cloister of Millstatt in village Litzels. North side of the castle Soon after 1300 the gender of those of falcon's stone seems to have Upper falcon's stone (1986) become extinct, because during the following years the counts made a distinction from Görz between an upper and low "Valchensteyn" whom they lent apart to smaller aristocrats. On the 24th of June, 1394 pledged Graf Heinrich IV of Görz the upper falcon's stone to the Austrian duke Albrecht III. Because count Heinrich was not able later any more to redeem again the pledged castle, she remained under rule the Habsburg who treated now falcon's stone like her property. By the peace of Pusarnitz the rule falcon's stone also came legally to the possession of the Habsburgs. Now emperor Friedrich III left both castles to different orderlies who changed quickly and had to shoot constantly high Altarpiece in the parish church security sums. Saint. Martin to Obervellach in Möllvalley. Painted from Dutch painter Jan In 1504 emperor Maximilian I who was followed in 1493 his father van Scorel Friedrich III as a regent pledged the castle and this Land court Falkenstein as well as the offices to Vellach (Obervellach) and to Kirchheim (Grosskirchheim) in the upper Möllvalley to Julian, count of Lodron because this of the court chamber had lent 7500 guilders. Apollonia, the spouse of the count, born Long from wave castle and sister of the salzburgischen archbishop cardinal Mattew Lang of wave castle, lost her husband already in 1510. She got married in the second marriage to Christoph Graf of Frangipani, a Croatian aristocrat who had lost his freedom as an imperial commander in chief in 1514 in Friaul. Mrs. Apollonia Frangipani donated a famous altarpiece of the Dutch painter Jan van Scorel for Obervellach. During those years the castle falcon's stone was in a bad building construction in progress, this is why allowed in 1507 the emperor the count Lodron 500 guilders to obstruct. About 1510 the widowed countess might use 200 guilders again to raise the ramshackle castle. Castle low falcon's stone (1986) To Frangipanis of childless marriage the rule has changed falcon's stone several times the owners under whom also for a short time of the rich golden crafts Christoph Weitmoser, distant count Ferdinand von Salamanca-local castle and Bartholomäus Khevenhüller appear. From 1693 to 1883 the castle was in the property of the barons of star brook who allowed to go to ruin the fortress because they had her residence in the castle Groppenstein to the west of Obervellach. In 1905 the castle acquired falcon's stone court advice Ferdinand Kaltenegger of reeds nest to which of the castle unterfalcon's stone gave her present appearance. After his death in 1912 the owners of the renovated castle which was from 1939 to 1947 in the property of Georg Friedrich Scheier, adoptive baron Trütschler von Falkenstein changed. The son of the baron Trütschler sold in 1959 both castles to Anni Helene Johanna Oehmichen, a Dithmarscher in the exporter who had lived before in China, Japan and the USA. Because the castle had come down low falcon's stone in 1959 already again very much, invested Mrs. Oehmichen once more a considerable property in the restoration. Also she equipped the castle with valuable paintings and antiques. It followed the efforts of the Mrs. Oehmichen an arson by a burglar with which the palace (the main building of the castle) burnt down with the valuable inventory in 1969 up to the foundation walls. The burglar who wanted to blur his tracks supposedly by the arson was caught immediately after the action with backpack full silver in the railway tunnel Mallnitz-baker's stone. Mrs. Oehmichen the salary is due – to have furnished low falcon's stone rebuilt and after this heavy stroke of fate – the palace of the castle (commemorative table, on the right from the main gate of the castle, donated by the municipality of Obervellach). Mrs. Oehmichen passed away in 1987 in castle low falcon's stone after long, heavy illness. By inheritance the possession of the castle ruin passed over upper falcon's stone and the castle low falcon's stone after the death of the Mrs. Oehmichen on her both nephews Rolf Peter Oehmichen (Hamburg, the FRG) and Erhard Christian Mahnke (Burlington, Vermont, the USA). Rolf Peter Oehmichen carried out once more far-reaching renovations in the castle arrangement, among other things a new roofing of the roofs of the tower and the military ways with partially up to 1-metre-long handgeklobenen Larch shingles.