★ホッホオスターヴィッツ城 Burg Hochosterwitz(Sankt Georgen/AUS)
城郭(城塞) 山城 ルネサンス様式 1570 The site was first mentioned in in a 860 deed issued by King Louis the German of East Francia, donating several of his properties in the former Principality of Carantania to the Archdiocese of Salzburg. It was then named as ‘Astarwiza’, its name being of Slavic origin. In the 11th century Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg ceded the castle to the Dukes of Carinthia from the noble House of Sponheim in return for their support during the Investiture Controversy. The Sponheim dukes bestowed the fiefdom upon the family of Osterwitz, who held the hereditary office of the cup-bearer in 1209 In the 15th century, the last Carinthian cup-bearer, Georg of Osterwitz was captured in a Turkish invasion and died in 1476 in prison without leaving descendants. Hans, cup-bearer of Osterwitz was the last remaining survivor of the family. He had a substantial debt owing to the Emperor and was forced to give up the deeds of the castle to pay his debt. So after four centuries, on 30 May 1478, the possession of the castle reverted to Emperor Frederick III of Habsburg.
Over the next thirty years the castle was badly damaged by numerous Turkish campaigns. On 5 October 1509, Emperor Maximilian I handed the castle as a pledge to Matthaus Lang von Wellenburg, then Bishop of Gurk. Bishop Lang undertook a substantial renovation project for the damaged castle. 1570-86年に、現在のような姿に建てられた、ホーホオスターヴィッツ城だ。当時から現在に至るまでケーフェンヒュラー男爵家の所有である城の内部は、博物館とレストランになっています。山の斜面に沿って幾重にも続く城塞、14本の塔、立派な武器庫などは、トルコ軍の襲撃の備えたもの。列車の窓からも眺められるこの城は、まるで陸にあがった軍艦のようだ。
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