Hollenburg Castle
Hollenburg Castle (Slovenian: Humberk) is a broad hilltop castle in the Rosental valley on the rocky southern slope of the Sattnitz to the Drau. The property is located in the present-day municipality of Köttmannsdorf, KG Hollenburg, Carinthia.
History
Hollenburg Castle probably stands on the site of the curtis ad Trahoven mentioned in documents from 860 and 876. Today's castle was probably built around 1100 by ministerials of the Margraves of Styria, and a family of Hollenburgers is documented for the year 1142. When the transport route over the Loibl Pass was expanded in the 13th century, the castle gained strategic importance. The owners of Hollenburg Castle (including the Pettau and Stubenberg families) then repeatedly came into conflict with Viktring Abbey, but on the other hand they once again acted as its donors, for example for the important Gothic stained glass windows in the abbey church.
The castle was partially destroyed by the earthquake of 1348, but was immediately rebuilt. Hollenburg Castle is documented as the seat of a provincial judge in 1349.
Emperor Maximilian I sold the castle to Siegmund von Dietrichstein in 1514 and declared it a barony. The Dietrichsteins had the castle extended in the 16th and 17th centuries to its present representative form. The last male descendant of the Dietrichsteins died in 1861. In 1913, Ludwig ‘Louis’ Wittgenstein (1845-1925), an uncle of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, acquired the castle and manor. By inheritance, the Hollenburg passed to the Maresch family in 1923 and finally to the Kyrle family, one of whose owners was Johannes Kyrle.
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