!!!Schaunberg

Schaunberg castle, Upper Austria, castle ruins in the municipality of 
Hartkirchen in the district of Eferding. The castle, built on a cliff 
falling down to the level of the Danube (first documented mention in 
1160) was the residence of counts who were closely associated with the 
emperor. After 1390 these counts administered the fiefdoms of the 
Habsburg family as vassals, but lost their Imperial estates in 1548 
and died out in 1559. Since the 17%%sup th/%  century the castle has 
fallen into disrepair, and in 1825 the keep collapsed.

!Literature
O. Hageneder, Das Land der Abtei und der Grafschaft 
Schaunberg, in: Mttlg. des oberoesterreichischen Landesarchivs 7, 
1960.


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