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In addition to its primary function of defending the house's area landholdings, the castle served to protect the iron-ore mines and smelting furnaces of the upper Sava Valley, a sovereign possession of the Counts and a jealously guarded one because the industry was at the time normally a
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The castle was abandoned in the 18th century and left to decay. The impressive ruins are nonetheless indicative of its former might.
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After the extinction of the house of Celje in 1456, the castle and associated lordship were inherited by the
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had controlled the area—a nexus of important trade routes between
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The coat-of-arms of the lords of Weissenfels Castle at a house in
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