To be privately owned
CastleSchloßberg
Trautenburg Castle
Trautenburg Castle in the municipality of Schloßberg in Styria is located southeast of Leutschach. It emerged from the former Meierhof (manor farm) of Schmirnberg Castle.
Trautenburg Castle is 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's Abbey in Lavanttal, the Meierhof always belonged to the respective lord of the castle. At the beginning of the 14th century, the court passed to the Graz burgher family Wakkerzil, who expanded it into a noble residence. Subsequently, the property came into the possession of the Lords of Trautmannsdorf in 1493. Ehrenreich von Trautmannsdorf had the still modest residence expanded into a four-winged castle from 1581 onwards. He was allowed to rename the castle, which until then had been called Leutschach Castle, to Trauttenburg. Through inheritance, the castle came to Wolf Maximilian von Eisbiswald. After inheritance disputes and great indebtedness, Josef Boset acquired the castle in 1759. In 1769, Empress Maria Theresia elevated Joseph Boset to the 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 1974, Trautenburg was acquired by Herbert I. Rauch-Höphffner.
Architectural Description+
The castle is a two- to three-story, four-winged complex with two of formerly four corner towers around a large inner courtyard. The west wing has pillar arcades on the ground floor and round-arched windows on the upper floor, the east wing an open corridor on medieval corbels. In the courtyard stand two life-size statues by Giovanni Giuliani, and in the northwest corner, a spiral staircase. Since the 15th century, there has been a chapel of St. Anthony of Padua here, which was renovated in 1662. Next to the 17th-century castle gate stands a large round tower, which received its fortified appearance around 1902 through an octagonal superstructure and a battlement. Inside the tower is a weapons hall, below which is the dungeon. On the upper floor of the west wing is the so-called Emperor's Room, and in the north wing, a large hall, in front of which is a two-story balcony extension with columns.
The castle park was laid out in the 19th century. Along the avenue leading to the castle entrance stands a cellar building with a Romanesque column capital, as also found in a cellar room of the castle, presumably spolia from the Romanesque predecessor building of the current church of Leutschach.
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