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Schloss Laubegg

Austria

Schloss Laubegg stands in the municipality of Ragnitz, in the Leibnitz district of Styria, and the first thing worth knowing is that its name arrived before any castle you can see today. Near the present-day cadastral community of Laubegg there was once a ferry across the Mur. In 1254 a man called Ullinus de Lovbeke, a follower of the Wildon family, appears in the records here for the first time. That is the earliest documented trace, a name in a charter rather than a date of construction, so treat it as the moment Laubegg enters the written story, not necessarily the moment it began.

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