Lasseregg Castle

The first documented mention of the estate, then an archiepiscopal fief called Gut Niederalm, dates back to 1418. In 1513, Ruprecht Lasser appeared as the owner of the Kirchhof estate and began to expand it into a castle, as evidenced by red marble coats of arms with the year 1511. Emperor Maximilian I granted Ruprecht Lasser a coat of arms in 1514, and in 1538, Emperor Ferdinand I elevated him to the knighthood with the predicate "von Lasseregg." The Lasser family, a wealthy dynasty, owned the castle for generations until Georg Gottlieb Freiherr Lasser von Lasseregg sold it to his brother-in-law Hilfgott Graf Kuefstein. In 1729, Ernst Gottlieb Lasser, Georg Gottlieb's son, bought the estate back. With the death of his son Leopold in 1798, the male line of the Lasser family died out, and the property passed to Leopold's sister Maria Anna Josefa. Through marriage and inheritance, Lasseregg initially remained in related hands before it was sold to Johann Dengler in 1878. After further changes of ownership, Eleonore Wallner acquired the estate in 1926, and to this day, the renovated castle remains in the private possession of the Wallner family.