Schloss Gabelhöfen
I have stayed in a lot of hotels for work but I never stayed in a hotel that was a castle. The Schloss Gabelhofen is 12 kilometres from the Red Bull Ring in the town of Fohnsdorf near Spielberg in Austria.
The former castle had been turned into 57 room hotel in October 1994.
HISTORY
The building was first mentioned in 1443 Riegersdorf as justice, which belonged to the lordship of Liechtenstein in Judenburg. In 1490, the courtyard of the Pfanngauerwent, and began the expansion to the Renaissance water Castle.
After the extinction of the dynasty of the Pfanngauer, the castle of the PranckhherrenCatzianer and gall came. 1494 the Liechtenstein took the Castle again and gave it asfief to the Prankhherren around 1536 finished the reconstruction around the year.
In 1596, the Gabelkhofner bought the Castle. This family dynasty came in the 14th century from Bavaria in Styria. Christof by Gabelkhoven 1597 received the fiefdomover the Castle by Carl Freiherr von born. In 1897, it took Prince Johann of Liechtenstein.
all images taken on a Fujifilm X-T10 + Fujinon XF18mm f2R
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