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Schloss Kornberg is a castle at Kornberg near Riegersburg,
Kornberg Castle was first mentioned in documents in 1284. It originally served not as a residential but as a fortified complex of the Lords of Kornberg to the hungarian border.
In 1308 the Lords of Kornberg sold the Lordship and castle for financial reasons to the www.altemauern.info.at (ger)
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Website of castle KornbergWebsite Art at Kornberg
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Styria
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, Austria
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History
Kornberg Castle was first mentioned in documents in 1284. It originally served not as a residential but as a fortified complex of the Lords of Kornberg to the hungarian border.
In 1308 the Lords of Kornberg sold the Lordship and castle for financial reasons to the lords of Walsee
The Lords of Walsee were a German noble family between the 13th and 15th centuries.
Taking their name from Bad Waldsee in Upper Swabia, they were originally ministerials (unfree knights) in the service of the abbey of Weissenburg and the Staufe ...
. In 1328 the ''Walseer'' gave Kornberg as an Afterlehen
An ''Afterlehen'' or ''Afterlehn'' ''(plural: Afterlehne, Afterlehen)'' is a fief that the liege lord has himself been given as a fief and which he has then, in turn, enfeoffed wholly or partially to a lesser vassal or vassals. The term is German. ...
to the Lords von Graben
Herren von Graben, also named ''von (dem) Graben'', ''vom Graben'', ''Grabner'', ''Grabner zu Rosenburg'', ''Graben zu Kornberg'', ''Graben zu Sommeregg'', ''Graben von (zum) Stein'', and ''ab dem Graben'' was the name of an old (Uradel) Austrian ...
. Because of that the new family line changed their coat of arms, a blue diagonal left bar on silver, into a arms with a silver shovel on red. Later Kornberg came into their possession as an Allod
Allod, deriving from Frankish language, Frankish ''alōd'' meaning "full ownership" (from ''al'' "full, whole" and ''ōd'' "property, possession"; Medieval Latin ''allod'' or ''allodium''), also known as allodial land or proprietary property, was ...
and served as the administrative headquarter of the styrian branch of the family. After the death of Andrä von Graben in 1556 and the extinction of this line, the castle fall after many years of inheritance disputes to the sons of Andrä's sister Anna von Graben, the Lords and Counts von Stadl zu Kornberg as a Fideicommiss
In English common law, fee tail or entail is a form of trust, established by deed or settlement, that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents that property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise ali ...
. Their offspring owned the castle until 1825. Afterwards they sold it to the House of Liechtenstein
The House of Liechtenstein (), from which the principality takes its name, is the family which reigns by hereditary right over the principality of Liechtenstein. Only Dynasty#Dynast, dynastic members of the family are eligible to inherit the thro ...
, and in 1871 the family of Charles Francois Bardeau become the new owners./ref>
External links
Website of castle Kornberg
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References
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