Burg Schlaining
Austria
Before it was a peace castle, Schlaining was a toll on a road. The fortress on the edge of Stadtschlaining first appears in a document of 1271 from Ottokar Přemysl, written as castrum Zloynuk, and the Hungarian name, Szalónak vár, still carries the echo. It sat on an important north–south route over the Bernstein hills, and later the trade roads from Steinamanger, Graz, Wiener Neustadt and Ödenburg crossed here. The name drifted gradually over the centuries and only became official in its present form in 1786. Keep that crossroads in mind as you walk up: almost everything that happened here followed from who controlled that junction.
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