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View from north-west direction
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Castle can be approached by the road from this south side or by foot by staircase
from the eastern side
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Eastern turret is located on a south side of castle design
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In the year 1991 reconstructed portal with the year 1558, which dates the modernisation
of defence walls and its reinforcement with south-east roundel and both circular turrets
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Light loophole in the turret
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Residential wing (house) is leaned against the outer side of southern defence wall,
next to the entrance tower
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South defence wall on which residential wing is leaned against
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South-eastern roundel
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Roundel in its attic storey supported by console wreath still has original in undisturbed
form preserved defence system defined by a sequence of loopholes and holes for pouring hot oil
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Keyshaped loophole can be found in the ground floor of the roundel on its west side
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Renaissance defence wall with semi-tower reinforced by
buttresses; on older depictions semi-towers are still roofed
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Interesting profile of keyshaped loophole is embedded into northern semi-tower but it
is probably there only as an ornament
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North-western "chopped" tower in which in 1660 a chapel was arranged and nowadays
a collection of sacral Baroque art resides in the tower; in the lower part a prolongated arrow-loop is visible
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Year 1660 is carved into a chapel portal
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Loophole located in the basement storey
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Northern wing
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Western semi-tower
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Outer courtyard, to which a path is leading through the entrance tower and is then going spirally
around the castle and in the end finishes with portal, leading to the north side
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Portal which connects "lower" and "upper" outer courtyard
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Castle is connected to its inner ward by a wooden passage above a moat,
which was constructed in th 19th century
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"Upper" plateau of outer courtyard on the south side, to which a passage is leading
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Southern facade of the castle is decorated with Renaissance windows
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Imposing late-Gothic circular defence tower on the south-western corner of castle
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Stairs which replaced a wooden bridge in the 19th century lead into the inner castle
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Portal is made of stone, semicircularly concluded with old forged doorposts
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Renaissance double console with a small shield
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An opening in the middle of the door for allowing people to enter and exit,
so the big iron door woldn't have to be constantly opened.
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Semicircular gothic portal with skimmed edges which leads to a ground-floor basement rooms
of western wing
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Late-Gothic portal with synchronic door-posts in the ground floor of north wing
of castle core
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Internal well (south from the castle we'll encounter an outer well, supposedly 55 meters deep)
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Heraldic plate embedded into south, only wall of the courtyard without arcades which dates the last
more significant castle reconstruction in 1858
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Vaulted corridor in the floor of the northern wing
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South-eastern part of inner courtyard
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Portal in the south wing
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Behind this entrance (access is possible from the other side) a reconstruction of an
old pub is located, equiped with many original furniture elements
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Museum and gallery collections: collection of african art of František Foit
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African collection - masks
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Collection of Slovenian contemporary art
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Parts of original entrance portal which was embedded into inside of the second floor of
western wing in 1991, at the time of setting up its reconstruction
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Tombstone of Uršula Rosina Raumschüssel, née Wernek (church of St.Andrej,
Šalek, 16th August, 1626)
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Plate of Tomaž Hren, bishop of Ljubljana; rectory parish church of St.Jurij
Škale (1607)
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Original paintings from the first half of 16th century (Švarcenštajn castle)
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One of the paintings
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Reconstruction of the portal from 1490 (year is carved into keystone);
Sacristy of parish church of St.Mihael in Družmir (church is demolished); portal is a property of Zvone čebula, Šoštanj
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Late-Gothic chest in alpine style (Turn castle)
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Glazed tile (Švarcenštajn castle, 16th century)
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Goblet on a foot, decorated with prints of four different seals, influx is rolled in,
it is made on a foot-turned spindle, ochre baked clay (Šalek castle, 15th century)
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Arrow points (Šalek castle and Kacenštajn castle, 12th - 15th century)
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Reconstructed romanesque presbiterium
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Reconstructed stone altar of St.Jošt from Paški Kozjak from year 1676;
central statue (St.Jošt) is fro late-Gothic period
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Glass case in a collection "When Velenje was becoming a city" (period between
1945 and 1960 is presented); considerable emphasis is on Josip Broz Tito because still nowadays some of us remember that
Velenje once had a prefix "Titivo" ("Tito's")
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View of Velenje city from the castle (Šalek castle is visible in the background)
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Velenje with castle in the background from around 1954
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Another image roughly from the same time period
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Velenje castle on colored lithography by C. Reichert from
around the year 1860 (outtake)
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Carl Goedel, Velenje castle, colored lithography from around 1860,
Gradz, private collection
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Velenje borough and castle above (archive of Velenje museum, author unknown)
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Velenje castle, G. M. Vischer, Topographia Ducatus Stiriae,
1681; copper engraver of this depiction was A. Trost
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Velenje castle, G. M. Vischer, Topographia Ducatus Stiriae, 1681
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Velenje castle in the mid 19th century; lithography from Puiff's book
Wegweiser in sämtliche Gesundbrunnen und Bäder der Steiermark, 1854
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