Noble lady still loves the Frýdlant area despite her aunt being imprisoned there during WWII
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Agathe Maria, countess Széchényi von Sárvár-Felsővidék is a great-granddaughter of Franz Clam-Gallas who left an important imprint in the history of Frýdlant region. She was born on the 7th of June in 1962 in Lisbon to Christiane von Auersperg and Antal Széchenyi, scions of notable Austrian and Hungarian noble families. In 1975, she moved, along with her parents and two older brothers to Austria where they lived with Grandma Clam-Gallas for a year – Gabrielle von Auesperg was the fourth of seven daughters of Franz Clam-Gallas. Then they moved to Upper Austroa to the St. Martin castle where her father worked as a horse breeder and trainer in the stables of the Arco-Zinnenberg family. Agathe studied hotel hosekeeping in Salzburg and for all her life, she worked in hotels in Austria, London or Spain. Only after the fall of the Communist régime in Czechoslovakia, she was able to visit the Frýdlant region where her family owned the castles of Frýdlant, Lemberk and Grabštejn. Since 2013, she has been regularly visiting Hejnice where her ancestors founded a major convent and church. Her story shows the post-war lives of the Austrian noble families of Clam-Gallas and Auersperga and the Hungarina Széchenyis. In 2022, the witness lived in St. Martin in Austria.
