Ehrenhausen Castle (Styria)

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Ehrenhausen Castle

Ehrenhausen Castle , with well-preserved fortifications, is located on a steeply sloping elevation high above the Mur and the town of Ehrenhausen in the Leibnitz district in southern Styria . Not far from the castle is the mausoleum of Ruprecht von Eggenberg on the same hill .

history

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Mausoleum of Ruprecht von Eggenberg
Ehrenhausen Palace and Market 1825

The castle is an irregular, three-storey four-wing building around an arcade courtyard with a keep from the 12th century. The castle is mentioned for the first time in 1240 as a fiefdom of the St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal . From around 1260 the lords of Pettau and from 1441 the counts of Schaunberg were feudal takers of the monastery.

In 1543, Count Georg von Schaunberg had to sell the castle and the Meierhof to Christoph von Eggenberg († 1553) from the Radkersburg line of the Eggenberg family, who had risen from the merchant class . He and his son Ruprecht von Eggenberg expanded the castle considerably because of the constant threat from the Turks. The latter, elevated to baron as an important general in the Turkish Wars, was also the builder of the mausoleum . From 1543 to 1755 the castle was owned by the Eggenberg family and they expanded it into a renaissance castle. After the Ehrenhausen line of the Eggenberg family expired in 1646, the possession of the Graz line passed to Markt and Schloss Ehrenhausen . After the Eggenberg dynasty went out, there was a rapid change in ownership of Ehrenhausen Palace and the mausoleum next to it on the Schlossberg.

Around 1900 the castle was bought by the former Prince - Archbishop of Olomouc , Theodor Kohn . He owned Ehrenhausen Castle from 1904 to 1915. While he bequeathed the mausoleum to the state of Styria, Ehrenhausen Castle remained in private ownership and passed to the Barons von Salvi; today it belongs to Mrs. Ingrid Csicsaky.

For the history of the castle see also the local article Ehrenhausen .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Ehrenhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Stauder, Historisches-Ehrenhausen: Das Mausoleum ( online ( Memento from April 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )), accessed January 12, 2015
  2. ^ Bernhard Peter, Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 1661: Ehrenhausen (Styria, Austria): Eggenberg-Mausoleum ( online ), accessed January 12, 2015

Coordinates: 46 ° 43 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 15 ° 35 ′ 13.9 ″  E