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The area around the castle was covered by forests that were only cleared around 1500, nearly half a millennium after Habsburg Castle was first constructed. [citation needed] View from the South at dusk. The castle has been owned by the Canton of Aargau since 1804. [4] It became part of Museum Aargau in 2009. [4]
The origins of Habsburg Castle's name are uncertain. There is disagreement on whether the name is derived from the High German Habichtsburg (hawk castle), or from the Middle High German word hab/hap meaning ford, as there is a river with a ford nearby. The first documented use of the name by the dynasty itself has been traced to the year 1108.
After World War I, Austria declared itself a republic on 12 November 1918. On 10 April 1919, the Habsburg Law came into force, which dethroned the House of Habsburg-Lorraine as rulers of Austria. The Habsburg family members had to declare themselves loyal citizens of the republic, or leave the country, otherwise their property would be confiscated.
Franz Joseph, the longest-reigning Emperor of Austria, was born at Schönbrunn and spent a great deal of his life there. He died there, at the age of 86, on 21 November 1916. Following the downfall of the Habsburg monarchy in November 1918, the palace became the property of the newly founded Austrian Republic and was preserved as a museum.
Initially planned in the 13th century as the seat of the Dukes of Austria, the palace expanded over the centuries, as they became increasingly powerful. From 1438 to 1583, and again from 1612 to 1806, it was the seat of the Habsburg kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, and thereafter until 1918 the seat of the Emperors of Austria. Since ...
Hofburg in Innsbruck, Austria. The Hofburg (English: Court Castle) is a former Habsburg palace in Innsbruck, Austria, and considered one of the three most significant cultural buildings in the country, along with the Hofburg Palace and Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.
The Duchy of Austria, after 1453 the Archduchy of Austria; The Erblande, Habsburg hereditary lands before 1526; The Austrian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire; The Habsburg monarchy as a whole, or after 1804 the Austrian Empire; Cisleithania, the Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867 to 1918