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History & Personalities

One upon a time …
… there lived a singular woman with a distinctive name: Margarethe “Maultasch”, [Margaret “the Bag Mouth”], the last Countess of Tyrol. In 1346 she gave her burgrave, Petermann of Schenna, the order to build Schenna Castle. In the politically turbulent centuries that followed, the Castle was owned by a series of leading Tyrolean aristocratic families, among them the Lords of Starkenberg, Emperor Maximilian I, the Counts of Lichtenstein, the Counts Bettoni and finally, from 1845, Archduke John of Austria.

He was passionate about his adopted homeland of Tyrol, where he left indelible traces: his memory thus endures here, not least because of Schenna Castle, chosen as the seat for his descendants, as well as the neo-Gothic Mausoleum on the local church hill, serving him and his family as a burial site.

John’s descendants, the Counts of Meran, still occupy the Castle today, living there and managing the estate, which includes the Castle with its valuable collections; the Mausoleum; and the Thurnerhof, a farm that John acquired in 1852 and transformed into the economic foundation of the estate, and is nowadays a well-known and popular inn.
Margaret “the Bag Mouth”, last Countess of Tyrol (1318-1369)
Petermann of Schenna, who built the castle around 1350
Philipp, Count of Lichtenstein (~ 1460-1513)
Archduke John shortly before his death in 1859
Geognostische Karte von Tirol, 1849
The Geognostic map of Tyrol, 1849
Emperor Maximilian I, with the exception of Archduke John, the sole Habsburg owner of Schenna Castle (1496-1506)
First ascent of the Ortler (1804), sponsored by Archduke John
Regulation of the River Etsch near Meran
Shooting range at Meran, 1851
Coat of arms of Archduke John (left) and the Counts of Meran (right)
Eduard Gurk, village and Schenna Castle
Schenna Castle around 1850

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