Wallsee Castle
The Wallsee Castle is a former manor in the market town of Wallsee-Sindelburg in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria.
Wallsee Castle was closely connected to the town's economy from the Middle Ages until about 1920.
From 1895 it was inhabited by Archduchess Marie Valerie, a daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph and Elisabeth, with her husband, Archduke Franz Salvator. On June 11, 1895, Marie Valerie and Franz Salvator bought the castle from the then owner, Duke Alfred of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha, and had it completely renovated. After completion, the couple entered the castle on the Danube on September 4, 1897. There was great jubilation in Wallsee. On April 24, 1918, her daughter Hedwig of Austria-Tuscany married Count Bernhard zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1881–1952); This marriage gave birth to nine children. The castle is still family-owned today, most recently by Franz Salvator Habsburg-Lorraine (1927-2013), and is not open to the public. Some Habsburgs are buried in a crypt behind the main altar of the parish church in Sindelburg.
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