Stadelhof Castle

Stadelhof Castle (often also written Stadlhof) is a building near St. Donat, a village in the municipality of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia.

Stadelhof, as the name suggests, was originally a manor farm. The castle belongs to a whole series of buildings that emerged from the 16th century around the new provincial capital Klagenfurt. The property was first mentioned in a document in 1599, when the Carinthian Hereditary Grand Master Sigmund von Keutschach auf Tannenberg acquired the estate. After the owner's death in 1607, the governor mortgaged Stadelhof to Adam zu Ratzenegg und Hallegg, followed by the landscape secretary Johann Weber von und zu Ehrental and the chief revenue clerk zu Pontafel as owners. In the 18th century, Erasmus Seyfried Kreiner vom Spiritushof was followed by numerous changes of ownership. In 1798, the small castle belonged to the Sankt Veit iron merchant Johann Matthäus Freiherr von Koller, and in 1846 to Gustav Graf Egger. Subsequently, the owner changed almost annually. In 1896, Viktor Friedrich Ernst von Schönburg-Waldenburg took it over, and in 1923, Oskar Schneditz. From 1953, Stadelhof was owned by the Dreihann-Holenia family, and in 1975, Elisabeth Fräss-Ehrfeld took it over.

The expansion to its current appearance took place between 1772 and 1780, probably according to plans by Johann Georg Hagenauer, when the two recessed side wings were added to the main building and a new facade was applied. Most recently, an interior renovation and a general refurbishment of the building took place between 1994 and 1996.