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Starhemberg Castle

Austria

Heritage status
Listed objects in Austria
Location
Eferding
Coordinates
48.31162°, 14.02361°
Links
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Starhemberg Castle in Austria
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Description

Schloss Starhemberg, also called Schloss Eferding, stands in the centre of the Upper Austrian town of Eferding and has, with the exception of a short interruption in the period from 1630 to 1660, been in the ownership of the princely Starhemberg family for around 450 years. It is a protected monument (list entry).

On the same site there stood as early as the 12th century an official seat of the Bishopric of Passau, which was sold in the 14th century to the Counts of Schaunberg. They had the present north wing erected, in front of which a small outer bailey lay to the south in the 16th century. After the extinction of the Schaunbergs in the 16th century, their heirs, the Starhembergs, had the then castle extended and remodelled into a palace, before the complex was altered one last time during the 18th century in the style of Neoclassicism. The current owner of the estate is the ninth Prince of Starhemberg, Georg Adam.

Schloss Starhemberg is a member of the Austrian association Via Imperalis, which concerns itself with the promotion and preservation of European cultural heritage. Besides a private library, the palace buildings house three museums that deal with the history of Eferding and of the palace's owners. In addition, the complex has been used since 1987 as a cultural centre in which numerous public events take place.

Machine-translated from “Schloss Starhemberg (Eferding)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Starhemberg Castle ranks #7,906 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #250 of the 316 mapped in Austria. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Linz, 19 km away. See how Austria compares in the castle statistics.

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