Hotel Castle Lerchenhof

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Biedermeier period castle hotel in CarinthiaIn 1848 young mining industrialist, Julius Emanuel Wodley, took over his parents' operation with its furnaces and a highly modern hammer mill, located on the Gossering in Grunburg near Hermagor. He had Lerchenhof Castle constructed for hisimpending marriage. However, he died at an early age, leaving his young bride behind as his sole heir.In earlier times, larks had once nested and warbled away on this beautiful plateau at the entrance to the Gitschtal Valley, but with the increasing mining activity, they gradually withdrew to quieter areas. It was these creatures after which Woodleynamed his residence. Not until 1880 did the estate come into the possession of the Steinwender Family through marriage, a neighbouring family with a very proud farming tradition.