Schloss Ort

Schloss Ort or Schloss Orth is an Austrian castle situated in the Traunsee lake, in Gmunden, 19 kilometres 12 mi from Vocklabruck, the gate to Salzkammergut. The castle was founded around 1080 by Hartnidus of Ort, and improvements continued to be made into the thirteenth century - for example by Hartnidus V in 1244. In 1344 the brothers Friedrich and Reinprecht I of Wallsee purchased the castle, which became Friedrich’s sole possession on January 25, 1350. The castle remained in the possession of the Wallsee family until 1483, when Schloss Ort passed to Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor.

In 1876, the castle was acquired by Archduke John Salvator of Austria John of Tuscany 1852 – ca. 1911, but on October 6, 1889, he renounced his title and connections to the Habsburg imperial house and changed his name to Johann Orth, the tenth and last child of Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany and Maria Antonietta of the Two Sicilies departing for South America in 1890 with his morganatic wife on his own ship, the St. Margare.