The original castle, which was later modernized to a look of renaissance mansion, is mentioned in written
sources for the first time in 1311 as burk Feistritz. At the start it was a property of
provincial prince, nad later it was wandering from hand to hand as pawned property or other
(it was also owned by Counts of Celje from 1368 until 1456), until it was bought by count
Ignacij Attems (mansion Štatenberg and Brežice), who gave the castle its present form. Attems family
was the owner of the mansion until the last war. Everything remarkable, we can see today in the mansion,
originates from the era of the first Attems's. Most of the artwork, statues and many things on/in or at
the mansion were destroyed after World War II.
Quite a few theme exhibitions found home in the mansion, but really worth seeing are rooms, which
are marked as "other" under visit offet. These are representation rooms painted with frescos and
sometimes decorated with stuccos:
Wedding hall, arranged in round ranaissance tower,
Knight hall, two storeys high (painted by painter from baroque era, Franc Ignacij Flurer),
chapel,
stairway hall etc.
Building history of the mansion is only partially studied. It is obvious that the oldest castle
leaned on to the north-west corner of town's defence wall with existing tower, which is by measurements
and its design almost identical to the town's south-western, later Grasl's tower. Even before
1313 a present northern wing was added to the tower, which was leaned on existing defence wall.
At the most in the 16th century, probably earlier, the other three wings were added
to at first modest, single-winged castle, and surrounded it with renaissance defence wall and
defence towers. The next big abuttal in castle's development was year 1623. Counts Vetter von der
Lilie renewed it with certain corrections which are still still preserved today. At the time
the castle became posession of Attems some outbuildings were constructed southe from the mansion.
A big castle park was once located west from the mansion, surrounded with low wall. We can still
see Gabr's tree avenue.
Currently there are fresco and stucco reconstruction works in progress at the mansion. The last time
frescos were renewed was in 1964. Because taking photos in representation rooms (especially frescos) is
not permitted, I suggest that you take a look at those by following the links below.
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Literature: |
Stopar, Ivan, Dr.: "Gradovi na Slovenskem", Cankarjeva založba, 1987, ISBN 86-361-0280-4
Stopar, Ivan, Dr.: "Grajske stavbe v vzhodni Sloveniji - Med Prekmurjem in porečjem Dravinje", Založba Park, Ljubljana, 1991, ISBN /
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Contact details: |
GRAD SLOVENSKA BISTRICA
Zavod za kulturo Slovenska Bistrica
Grajska ulica 11
2310 Slovenska Bistrica
Slovenia
Tel.: +386 (2) 818 55 26, 843 31 93
Fax.: +386 (2) 818 27 25
e-mail: zavod.grad@siol.net
http://www.zavod-ksb.si
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Many cultural and social events, weddings in the Wedding hall...
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Moat with renaissance defence wall
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Castle portal with volutes, which leads to spacious courtyard
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Bridge, build over former drained castle moat;
once a draw bridge was here instead of stone bridge
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Renaissance portal adapted in the baroque era
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Former outbuildings south from the mansion
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Another entrance on the opposite side, forcibly breached renaissance defence wall
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Well in the inner courtyard
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Courtyard arcades at the entrance on the south side
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Inner south wall of the mansion; arcades in the storey are walled
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Round corner tower in which a wedding hall is located; other three towers are
of irregular rectangular shape
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Another view towards former outbuildings towards west
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Outer wall of the outbuilding abiove the defence wall
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Renaissance defence wall with embedded defence tower
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Typical renaissance construction with walled passage?
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Arrow loops on the top of the defence tower
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Corner of the next corner tower; engraved writings in stone
AEIOS and SONTNER
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Defence wall which continues from the mansion towards east
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Eastern wall; a tennis place is located behind the wall
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Northern wall
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Northern wall with north-west tower
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Only preserved Grasel's tower, once embedded into south-east
corner of city walls, build around 1300
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Inscription plate of Vetter family from the year 1589 (discovered
when arranging castle terraces)
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G. M. Vischer, Mansion Slovenska Bistrica; copper engraving from
Topographia of Styria duchy, 1681
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Castle Slovenska Bistrica on additionally collored
lithography from Reichert from around 1860, outtake; Graphic museum Rogaška Slatina
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