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Ptuj Castle
In the record (the oldest archive) of the chronist of Salzburg Archbishop Conrad 1, writes, that Conrad has built the castle exactly on the same site of an old and demolished castle. It means, there was a built castle on the Castle Hill before the 12th century. Ptuj Castle often changed owners. The Archbishop of Salzburg, who owned the castle and town in the 9th century, were awarded the castle in the feud of ministerial family, which soon came to name Ptujčani.
After the death of Friderik IX in 1438, the relatives of Ptujskih died out and were followed by Stubenberg. From 1480 until 1490, Ptuj and the Ptuj castle in the Hungarians hands, the property of Mattias Korvin, in 1490 the occupied territory was taken over by the German Emperor Maximilian as a landowners estate, which was administered by various tenants. This city and the castle remained until 1511 and then sold them both to the Archbishop of Salzburg again. The castle was replaced by a number of owners, before it was destroyed by the Countess Theresa Herberstein, who bought it in 1873 before it collapse. She made a thorough/fully renovation of all the buildings and re-equipped them. Herbersteines remained in the castle until 1945. Immediately, after the Second War, the castle was turned into a museum.
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