Obermurau Castle

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Obermurau Castle, on the right the parish church in Murau

Obermurau Castle is a castle complex built on the Murau Castle Hill . It is located in Upper Styria in Austria .

description

Murau, Schlossberg and Leonhardsberg (left, with Grünstels Castle , around 1830)
The inner courtyard, on the right the palace chapel

Ulrich von Liechtenstein , known as a minstrel, built the first castle on Murau's Schlossberg around 1232 . The castle was destroyed in the war between the House of Habsburg and the Bohemian King Přemysl Ottokar II. 1276–1278. It was then rebuilt by Ulrich's son Otto von Liechtenstein .

Christoph von Liechtenstein was married to the merchant's daughter Anna Neumann von Wasserleonburg (November 25, 1535 - December 18, 1623; her second marriage), who after her marriage bought the property from her husband's siblings and was the mistress of the old castle for half a century Liechtenstein lived in Murau. When he died in 1580, the rule of Murau passed to the widow. She is one of the most important figures in Murau's city history. At the age of 81, she married the then 31-year-old Imperial Count Georg Ludwig zu Schwarzenberg in 1617 in her sixth marriage - although the marriage was probably entered into as an adoption with a view to future inheritance. (2 of the Neumann's children had died before her and had no children, so she herself had no descendants.) After the death of his wife in 1623, Count Georg Ludwig had the old castle demolished, and between 1628 and 1643 the square renaissance castle around an arcade courtyard build.

The castle Obermurau remained until the present day the property of in 1670 by the Emperor I. Leopold in the Imperial Prince raised house Schwarzenberg .

Today, in addition to private rooms, the castle also houses the Schwarzenberg family's forest management. Around Murau alone, 18,000  hectares of forest are owned by the Schwarzenbergs, a total of 19,000 hectares.

literature

  • 350 years on Murau. (Schwarzenberg House) . In: blue-white leaves. Schwarzenbergische Zeitschrift 15, 1967, 2, pp. 4-7.
  • Judith Ebner-Zamazal: The Schwarzenberg Castle in Murau. Search for the architectural roots in Middle Franconia . Graz 2003, (Diploma thesis, Univ. Graz 2003).
  • Wolfgang Wieland: Anna Neumanin von Wasserleonburg. The mistress of Murau . 2nd Edition. Self-published, Murau 1999, ISBN 3-9501004-0-7 .
  • Wolfgang Wieland: Murau Castle . Schwarzenberg Archives, Murau 1994.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c History of Murau. murau.steiermark.at
  2. ^ Entry on Anna Neumann - the Mistress of Murau in the Austria Forum , author / editor: Robert Engele
  3. ↑ a b Walter Zschokke: Thoughtful natures - conversation with Norbert Putzgruber from the Austrian Federal Forests, forest owner Johannes Schwarzenberg and forest farmer Herbert Hofer . In: cutting 24: provisionally sustainable, December 2006, p. 10 f. ( Excerpt online , whole issue , pdf; both proholz.at).

Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '42.6 "  N , 14 ° 10' 9.2"  E