Schloss Velden

In 1545, the Protestant Khevenhüller noble family had acquired the lands of Landskron and Velden, where Bartlmä Khevenhüller (1539–1613) from 1585 had a Renaissance manor house built. Schloss Velden. His descendants were expelled from the Habsburg lands in the course of the Counter-Reformation in 1639, whereafter the castle fell to the noble House of Dietrichstein. […]

Tobelbad spa

Year 1910. 01-06-1910 until 15-07-1910. Alma Mahler (1879-1964). Anna Justine Mahler (Gucki) (1904-1988). Maud Turner (period 1907-1910). Walter Gropius (1883-1969). At the time that he met Alma, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) was far from being the famous architect that he was later to become. Still only twenty-seven, he was four years younger than Alma, an age difference […]