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Lost place... dilapidated castle in a huge area.

Little traffic on weekends

nice curves to drive

Come on Monday afternoon, with a bit of luck you will be the only visitor.

The community of Loretto itself has fewer than 500 inhabitants, but an estimated 100,000 pilgrims are counted here each year. The biggest pilgrimage days are the "Great Women's Day" (Assumption of Mary) on August 15th, when between 15,000 and 20,000 people come to Loretto, the Feast of the Nativity of Mary on September 8th, and the "Croatian Sunday", the pilgrimage of the Burgenland Croats, on the third Sunday in September. Many of the pilgrims still come on foot today. It seems that I picked a special day for my visit today. I was completely alone, not a soul to be seen.

Nice little fountain from 2008

Beautiful avenue, little traffic

The palace has stood empty since the interwar period and has fallen into disrepair. A real estate developer from Vienna acquired it in 2014 in order to renovate it and put it to a new use. This project is controversial. Strict ban on entry and threatened video surveillance - but there is no sign of renovation. Story: The name Trautmannsdorf refers to a Trutman who served under the Babenbergs, acquired land here from the Göttweig monastery around the year 1100 and presumably built a permanent house. In the 12th and 13th centuries, Trautmannsdorf was a link in the chain of fortifications against the Hungarians. The castle as such is first mentioned in 1292. Around 1163/1180 the small castle passed to the noble family of Stuchsen, ministerials of the Styrian margraves, who probably had their ancestral castle in Stixenstein, which was previously called Stuchsenstein. The castle was largely spared during the Kuruzzi invasions and the Turkish wars, as the complex was very well fortified and armed. From 1576 to 1756 the castle and dominion were owned by the Windisch-Graetz family. Under the Protestant, but loyal to the Emperor, Baron Friederich von Windischgraetz, the palace chapel was a center of the Protestants in eastern Lower Austria. Karl Joseph Graf Batthyány acquired the rule in 1756. After 1810, Prince Philipp Batthyány had the old buildings removed and a Classicist palace built. Joseph Kornhäusel is assumed to be the master builder. During the suppression of the revolution in Hungary in 1849, it served as a military hospital for wounded soldiers. After the death of the childless Prince Philip in 1870, the decline continued. In the vacant castle, a sanatorium for lung diseases was set up for a short time and the lands were leased.