Coat of arms of the Garzarolli family in Šrotenturn Manor
STRAžIščE PRI KRANJU, ŠROTENTURN MANOR
Location of the coat of arms: portal
A colored coat of arms, carved above the entrance to Šrotenturn (Ger. Schrottenturn) Manor in Stražišče near Kranj, represents a noble family that once ruled from the manor below Šmarjetna gora. This was the Garzarolli family, which only accidentally found itself in Upper Carniola, primarily orienting their operations in Slovenia toward Inner Carniola and the Littoral. In the mid-eighteenth century, a sequence of events related to marriages and inheritances brought the seigniory of Schrottenturn Manor into the hands of Anton Josef Garzarolli (1724–1796), who became its castellan for almost four decades. It was probably in his days that the already decrepit manor underwent a Baroque reconstruction. As was customary, Garzarolli had his coat of arms carved above the entrance to preserve the memory of the restoration, thus also leaving a lasting signature on the manor building itself.
Anton Josef belonged to the Senožeče branch of the Garzarolli family. He was the son of Johann Jakob (1696–1755), the leaseholder of the seigniory of Postojna and a Trieste patrician. In 1723, Johann Jakob married Sidonia Dorothea von Toperzer (1694–1761), the daughter of the lord of Šrotenturn Manor, Johann Sigmund von Toperzer, and Dorothea Sidonia Putschar. With this marriage, Johann Jakob Garzarolli led his family to Upper Carniola. His brother-in-law, Johann Joachim von Toperzer, was the last male representative of his lineage in the seigniory of Šrotenturn Manor. When he died in 1757, the seigniory was inherited by his sister Sidonia Dorothea Garzarolli, who that same year handed it over to her son Anton Josef, giving Šrotenturn Manor a new owner for nearly fifty years.
Sources:
Smole, Majda: Graščine na nekdanjem Kranjskem. Ljubljana: DZS, 1982, p. 477.
Stopar, Ivan: Grajske stavbe v osrednji Sloveniji. I. Gorenjska. Ob zgornjem toku Save (vol. 6). Ljubljana: Viharnik, 1996, p. 147.
Wiener genealogisches Taschenbuch 1927/28, p. 87.