Baron Longo estate

Key parts of the estate are the Villner Schlössl[1] in the neighbourhood of Villa and the 18th century Palais Longo[2] in Egna.

The three-storey château Villner Schlössl stands out in its prominent position on top of a cone-shaped vineyard in the Villa neighbourhood of Neumarkt.

The “Palais Longo” manor house, which attained its current form in the first half of the 18th century, is located just outside the centre of Neumarkt on the River Adige.

The listed building has been owned by the Baron Longo family for almost 250 years and still conveys a sense of the noble lifestyle during the Ancien Régime.

Twin flights of steps lead to a baroque entrance with a distinctive stone frame decorated with two cherubs and a female bust.

There are also high relief works in stucco by Franz Hannibal Bittner and frescos by Giacomo Antonio Delai.

The name of the estate goes back to Johannes Dominikus Longo, who was raised to the ranks of the nobility by the Tyrolean Archduke Ferdinand Charles in 1656.

At the start of the 19th century, the estate in Neumarkt was one of the places where the family resided alongside Innsbruck and Klagenfurt.

One year later, Anton Freiherr von Longo-Liebenstein and his son Felix (1888-1961) had to leave Egna for Klagenfurt because of an expulsion decree.

Anton von Longo-Liebenstein is a member of the Independent Winegrowers of Alto Adige and the Federazione Italiana Vignaioli Indipendenti (FIVI).

FIVI is the association of independent Italian winegrowers, which represents the interests of its 600 members on both a national and a European level.