Hohenburg Castle Ruins A 9781 Oberdrauburg

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Hohenburg was first mentioned in a document in 1375. Originally belonging to the Ortenburg family, Hohenburg passed after their extinction in 1418 to the Counts of Cilli. In 1455 it was pledged by Ulrich of Cilli to Duke Siegmund. In 1460 the castle fell to the Habsburgs by virtue of the Peace of Pusarnitz. Emperor Frederick III enfeoffed a Georg Hauser with the castle. Emperor Maximilian I transferred the property, called 'Rosenbichl', in 1495 to Andreas of Hohenburg. Thus the castle received the name 'Hohenburg'. When Heinrich of Hohenburg died in 1619, the inheritance fell to his daughter Elisabeth, married Aichelburg. She sold the heavily indebted lordship to Balthasar of Aschau.

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