Burgruine Hardegg, located on a wooded hill north of the town of Zweikirche

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Burgruine Hardegg, located on a wooded hill north of the town of Zweikirchen in Carinthia, Austria, is a modest complex of twin Romanesque castle. The ruins of Liebenfels, Gradenegg, and Liemberg are close by. These castles, together with Hardegg, were part of the major castle ring that encircled St. Veit, the ducal capital. A farmer currently owns the property where the ruins are situated. Because of the immediate risk of collapse and the ever-loosening stones, it is forbidden to enter the remains. In 1134, a text referenced Hardenegg for the first time when Mengotus de Hardeche et filius eius Gotpoldus. Hertwig von Hardegg, a ministerialis of the Duke of Carinthia, ended the existence of his family in 1176. Hardegg was later acquired by Seifried von Mahrenberg, who received it in 1264 as a gift from the bishop of Bamberg for the building of a Cistercian monastery. The castle remained in Bamberg until it was given back to the Carinthian dukes at the start of the 14th century, but the monastery-construction was never completed since Seifried passed away shortly after. Duke Albrecht of Austria gave the castle to Friedrich and Konrad von Auffenstein in 1346. The Khevenhüller family then inherited it, and by the start of the 16th century, the Leininger brothers were the castle-masters. Hieronymus Puecher, a Carinthian mint master, acquired it as a fief in 1527. After then, there was a quick change of ownership, and the castle began to deteriorate in the 17th century. The 18th-century introduction of the roof tax may have hastened the fall. Originally made up of two powerful Romanesque towers that had been joined throughout time by residential structures to form a small courtyard, the castle was last restored and enlarged during the Renaissance. One can still see the drawbridge gate and forecourt to the south of the castle. The southwest tower has collapsed, but the thick-walled remnants of northeastern tower have survived. Recent archeological discoveries demonstrate that the tower square was already inhabited in prehistoric times. #Castles #History #Architecture

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