Murau

Murau lies on the upper Mur in the mountains of Styria. First recorded as Murowe in 1250, it received town rights in 1298. From the thirteenth to the fifteenth century it was the centre of the Styrian Liechtenstein family's lands, whose court exercised jurisdiction along the upper valley. In 1574 Anna Neumann bought the lordship of Murau. Her marriage to Count Georg Ludwig von Schwarzenberg in 1617 brought the castle into the Schwarzenberg family, who retained it thereafter.