Hardt Castle (Thal)

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Hardt Castle
The building of the former LSF Grottenhof-Hardt located on the castle grounds

Hardt Castle (also known as Harterschlössl ), located in the western Styrian community of Thal , was built at the beginning of the 17th century by the aristocrat Bernhard Walther von Walthersweil in place of the farming village of the same name previously located there. In 1864 the castle came into the possession of the entrepreneurial family Reininghaus , who expanded the castle complex and owned it until 1939. When the Second World War broke out, the Reininghaus family, which had been ennobled in the Danube Monarchy, was not considered fully Aryan under the Nuremberg Laws . The castle became the property of the Reichsgau Styria or, after the end of the war, that of the State of Styria. In 1950, a school building for the Agricultural College Grottenhof in Graz was built on the castle grounds , which operated a branch here, the Agricultural College Grottenhof-Hardt . However, school operations in Hardt were discontinued in 2019. After a short-term use by the elementary school Thal, the school building is currently (August 2019) empty. The listed Hardt Castle itself is used as the headquarters of several companies.

Web links

Commons : Harterschlössl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ thal.gv.at - More noble seats in Thal
  2. ^ Mein district.at - More space for the students of Thal

Coordinates: 47 ° 3 ′ 27.5 ″  N , 15 ° 21 ′ 33.8 ″  E