Auersperg

Auersperg may refer to:

• Principality of Auersperg, estates held by the princely Austrian family of Auersperg
• Palais Auersperg, a large baroque palace in Vienna, built for the princely Auersperg family

People with the surname

• Herbard VIII von Auersperg (1528–1575), Habsburg general in the wars against the Ottoman Empire
• Andreas von Auersperg (1556–1593), the "Carniolan Achilles", a leader in the Battle of Sisak in 1593
• Johann Weikhard of Auersperg (1615–1677), the first Fürst von Auersperg and Prime Minister of Austria
• Johann Ferdinand of Auersperg (1655–1705), the second Fürst von Auersperg
• Franz Karl of Auersperg (1660–1713), the third Fürst von Auersperg
• Heinrich Joseph Johann of Auersperg (1697–1783), the fourth Fürst von Auersperg
• Joseph Franz Auersperg (1734-1795), Austrian count, prince bishop of Passau, cardinal
• Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg (1806–1876), Austrian poet and liberal politician from Carniola
• Prince Karl of Auersperg (1814–1890), Austrian statesman and the 8th prince of Auersperg
• Prince Adolf of Auersperg (1821–1885), Austrian statesman
• Prince Karl Maria Alexander of Auersperg (1859–1927), Austrian landowner and politician

See also

• Turjak Castle, a 13th-century castle in Carniola (Slovenia) known in German as Burg Auersperg