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500 Schilling Hochosterwitz
| Issuer | Austrian Mint (Münze Österreich) |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hochosterwitz, the medieval fortress perched on a 160-meter dolomite outcrop in Carinthia, was sold in 1571 to Georg Khevenhüller, whose family undertook the construction of its famous sequence of fourteen fortified gates — each designed so that attackers breaching one would be funneled into a killing zone before the next. The castle famously withstood Ottoman raids during the 16th-century incursions into Carinthia without ever being taken by force.
This was among the final issues in Austria's long-running silver Schilling commemorative program before the country adopted the euro in 2002.