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Duke Bernhard of Sponheim had Werdenberch Castle built in 1226 to control the trade routes to Italy and Slovenia. A year later, through the mediation of Duke Leopold the Glorious and Salzburg Archbishop Eberhard, a settlement was reached, whereby the Carinthian Duke gave Wernberg to Bishop Eckbert of Bamberg and at the same time accepted it from him as a hereditary fief. In 1256, Duke Ulrich III left the castle to his brother Philipp. At the beginning of the 14th century, Wernberg came into the possession of the Dukes of Tyrol, who pawned it to Heinrich von Hohenlohe in 1312. The former Bamberg feudal sovereignty was already obsolete by this time. After 1335, the lordship was often pawned or granted as a fief. In 1425, Duke Friedrich of Tyrol lent it to Hans and Rupert Kreutzer. In 1519, Wolfgang Khevenhüller is mentioned as lord of Wernberg. When his son Sigmund died without male descendants, his cousins inherited the property. Georg Freiherr von Khevenhüller bought out the others and became sole owner. Between 1570 and 1575 he had the old castle transformed into a stately Renaissance palace. When the religious feuds of the Counter-Reformation reached their peak, Paul Freiherr von Khevenhüller was forced to sell the castle to Sigismund von Wagensperg in 1629. By inheritance, Wernberg eventually passed to Baroness Galler von Schwamberg, who sold it to Abbot Christoph Kaponig von Ossiach in 1672. He added floors to the buildings. The Benedictine monks kept it until the Ossiach monastery was dissolved by Emperor Joseph II in 1783. The state confiscated Wernberg and soon sold it. Up until the 20th century, no fewer than twenty owners followed, including Gottlieb-Karl Ankershofen in 1783, Anton Nagele in 1809 and Leo Graf Zeppelin from 1929 to 1934. In 1935, the Order of the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood bought the castle. It still serves them today as a monastery and guest house.
Wernberg Castle is a largely Renaissance-era castle located on a rock above the Drava River bend east of Villach (Carinthia). It has had numerous owners over the centuries, including the Khevenhüller family and the Ossiach Abbey. Today it is a convent of the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood. Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Wernberg Access to the castle courtyard is free, and there is a restaurant inside. From the western flank of the castle, there are magnificent views of the Drava River bend and the Dobratsch Mountains.
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