Andreas von Auersperg was born in the Carniolan town of Seisenberg into one of the leading Protestant Austrian families in the Duchy of Carniola as the youngest son of Wolfgang-Engelbert von Auersperg, Lord of Schönberg, Seisenberg and Flödnig, and Anna Maria von Lamberg.
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Andreas became a soldier accompanying Archduke Matthew on his campaign in the Netherlands (1577–1578), fighting as a captain on the Croatian-Turkish border in 1578 and 1579 under Hans Ferenberger von Auer and Christoph von Auersperg.
It passed through the hands of numerous owners, including the noble families of Herberstein, Khiessl, Auersperg, Ursini-Rosenberg, Szekely, Brandis in von der Dur.
Then the line went through inheritance over to the generation of von Auersperg, who eventually sold the castle in 1905 to the province of Upper Austria.
He was succeeded as Duke of Münsterberg by his sons Johann Ferdinand and Franz Karl.
In 1946 he married the countess Hildegard Johanna von Auersperg (1895–1981) and lived in East Barnard, Vermont (USA) and England.
The castle remained the ownership of the Archdiocese of Salzburg until 1803, but in the meantime, the family Auersperg inherited the tenure in 1675, then the family Drašković in 1688, in 1725 again Auersperg and in 1769 the family Keglević.
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Prince Franz Karl of Auersperg (born: 22 November 1660 in Vienna; died: 6 November 1713 in Pischelsdorf am Engelbach), was the third since 1705 Prince of Auersperg and an Imperial General and from 1705 until his death Duke of Münsterberg.
The last of the originally settlers moved away in 1891, at which point the Auersperg noble family moved workers to the village to prepare timber for the sawmill at Rog.
As a renowned pillar of Protestantism Herbard von Auersperg thus opposed strongly the counter-reformatory measures of the Inner-Austrian Court in Graz and resisted the Catholic clerics in Carniola, who were mostly strangers to the land.
North of the village, on the slope of Strmec Hill, are the remnants of an unfinished castle that the Auersperg noble family had started building.
It was founded as a hunting lodge belonging to the Auersperg noble family.
In the 19th century, a steam-powered sawmill owned by the Auersperg noble family operated at Mrzli Potok.
A steam-powered sawmill owned by the Auersperg noble family operated at Rog from 1894 until 1932, employing up to 400 workers.