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While your pics are unusually dark, making specifics hard to identify, it looks like you have a typical German Cape Gun, complete with it's ornate horn trigger guard - from the muzzle-loading era, before cartridge guns became popular.
Josef Winkler was part of a German gunmaking family that later presumeable relocated from Ausberg to Ferlach when breechloaders came into common use, to integrate themselves within the cottage industry(s) there.
AFAIK, Winkler usually made some sort of ornate combination gun, like (but not limited to) your Cape Gun - like double-rifle drillings, vierlings, and other Bavarian/Bohemian types of firearms.
There are many, more modern, Josef Winkler combination guns F/S on various websites - let google be your friend.
Combination guns have always been popular in Europe, due to the political and financial limitations on the ownership of multiple firearms - since a single gun could serve in many different capacities.
Many of the makers also used their own ideas for rifling barrels, or tried the flavor of the month, in a never-ending quest for better performance.
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