Trautenburg Castle

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The Trautenburg Castle in the former rural community Schlossberg in Styria , with her at the beginning of 2015 after Leutschach incorporated, is located near the border with Slovenia . It emerged from the former Meierhof of Schmirnberg Castle .

History of the castle

Trautenburg Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1234 as the court of Reinhard II von Mureck , lord of Schmirenberg. In contrast to Schmirenberg Castle, which was a fief of St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal , the Meierhof always belonged to the respective lord of the castle. At the beginning of the 14th century the farm went to the Grazer bourgeois family Wakkerzil, who expanded it into a noble residence. After that the property came in 1493 to the Lords of Trautmannsdorf. In 1581, Ehrenreich von Trautmannsdorf had the still modest residence expanded into a four-winged castle. He was allowed to rename the castle called Leutschach Castle in Trauttenburg , he would have had to leave the country as a Protestant, but died in 1636 in the castle that he had bequeathed to his son Otto Ehrenreich, who had become Catholic. The castle came to Wolf Maximilian von Eibiswald by inheritance. After disputes over inheritance (in 1701 the castle was also stormed by gunmen and the administrator was taken prisoner) and large debts, Josef Boset bought the castle in 1759.

In 1769, Empress Maria Theresia gave Joseph Boset a knighthood. From then on he was allowed to call himself von Trautenburg . In 1837, Cajetan and Antoinie Bouvier acquired the property, which later passed to Count and Countess Anton and Camilkla Ostrowski. In 1944 the castle was hit by aerial bombs and three residents died. At the end of the war and in the post-war period it was used as accommodation for partisans and occupiers. An upswing only arose in 1974 when Trautenburg was acquired by Herbert I. Rauch-Höphffner. The castle is associated with haunted stories, and the wild hunt is said to have occurred there.

Building description

The castle is a two- to three-storey, four-wing complex with two of the four corner towers around a large inner courtyard. The west wing has pillar arcades on the ground floor and arched windows on the upper floor, while the east wing has an open corridor on medieval corbels . There are two life-size statues by Giovanni Giuliani in the courtyard, and a spiral staircase in the northwest corner . Since the 15th century there has been a chapel of St. Anthony of Padua, which was renewed in 1662. Next to the castle gate from the 17th century is a large round tower, which around 1902 received its defensive appearance through an octagonal structure and a battlement. In the tower there is a weapons hall, including the dungeon . The so-called Kaiserzimmer is located on the upper floor of the west wing, in the north wing there is a large hall, in front of which there is a two-story balcony porch with columns.

The castle park was laid out in the 19th century. On the avenue leading to the castle entrance there is a cellar building with a Romanesque column capital , as well as in a cellar room of the castle, presumably spoils of the Romanesque predecessor of today's church in Leutschach.

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  1. ↑ Robert Price : The Spook of Trautenburg. Of ghosts and other creatures. In: 111 gruesome places in Styria that you have to see. Verlag emons :, Graz 2018. ISBN 978-3-7408-0445-9 . P. 152.

Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ′ 35 ″  N , 15 ° 28 ′ 25 ″  E