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Gayenhofen Castle

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Gayenhofen Castle

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Location: Bezirk Bludenz, Bezirk Bludenz, Austria

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1. Nepomuk Fountain, Bludenz – Bench with a view of Flüdenz loop from Bludenz

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2. View of Bludenz from Montikel – Bench with a view of Flüdenz loop from Bings

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3. Bench with a view of Flüdenz – View of Bludenz from Montikel loop from Bludenz

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Paul

July 20, 2021

Gayenhofen Castle, Bludenz

From 1745 Franz Andrä Freiherr von Sternbach had the baroque Gayenhofen Castle built in place of a medieval castle that had fallen into disrepair due to a fire. For a long time it served as the Vogt's residence. In 1936 the city of Bludenz bought the building from the Sternbach family and later handed it over to the state of Vorarlberg. After a renovation between 1960 and 1963, the district administration of Bludenz moved into the castle. The building is built in the classical style and is one of the few palace buildings of this type in Austria.

Text: Municipality of Bludenz

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Daniela👣-Wuffis🐾

October 1, 2021

A very nice castle

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May 26, 2023

Gayenhofen Castle is part of the architectural ensemble with the Laurentius Church, dominating the city of Bludenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is a successor to Bludenz Castle, which was removed.

The Counts of Werdenberg built a castle between 1222 and 1245 as the center of the Counts of Werdenberg and Heiligenberg and the Bludenz dominion. Bludenz was a fortified town in Vorarlberg in the Middle Ages, alongside Bregenz and Feldkirch. From 1377/78 to 1418 Count Albrecht III lived within its walls. from Werdenberg-Heiligenberg. After the Werdenberg feud, the town and castle of Bludenz fell to the Habsburgs. In 1448, Duke Sigmund exchanged both for the dominion of Rotund with Ulrich von Schlandersberg. In 1491 the castle was destroyed by fire.

Baron Franz Andreas von Sternbach (1675-1755), who had previously built Wolfsthurn Castle, had his administrator Johann Josef Gassmayr with the local bailiwick administrator Franz Josef Gilm as local site manager in 1746/1747, using demolition stones from the old castle with the master bricklayer and stonemason Andreas Schmied, who had previously expanded the nave of the adjacent Laurentius Church, built Gayenhofen Palace. The simple design of the palace did not require the experience of the persons mentioned to have an external architect. On May 5, 1746, the foundation stone of the new castle was laid with the Provicar and pastor of Bürs Christian Battlogg and three Capuchins. The naming of Johann Caspar Bagnato in various sources as an architect is without evidence for Gayenhofen Castle, but Bagnato was on December 17, 1745 at a guild meeting in Schnifis, where he accepted Andreas Moll as an apprentice and probably also construction workers for his construction site Kornhaus Rohrschach vom Kloster St. Gallen recruited.

In 1936 the city of Bludenz bought the castle and handed it over to the state of Vorarlberg in 1959. Between 1960 and 1963 the castle was rebuilt again. The north wing was demolished, the square courtyard, which had been closed until then, was opened up and the castle was adapted on October 26, 1963 to become the office building of the Bludenz district authority.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Gayenhofen

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Location: Bezirk Bludenz, Bezirk Bludenz, Austria

Gayenhofen Castle

1. Nepomuk Fountain, Bludenz – Bench with a view of Flüdenz loop from Bludenz

2. View of Bludenz from Montikel – Bench with a view of Flüdenz loop from Bings

3. Bench with a view of Flüdenz – View of Bludenz from Montikel loop from Bludenz

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