Top 20 Castles around Krumau am Kamp

Schloss Waldreichs was first documented in 1258. Around 1400, Kaspar and Bernhard von Waldreichs are mentioned as feudal lords. After its destruction by an executionary army of the estates in 1446–1448, it was rebuilt as a fortress around 1450 under Hans Harrasser. The present-day ruin in the east wing, the chapel, and the eastern tower date from this period. In 1460, it was enfeoffed to Vinzenz Stodoligk. From 1519–1536, it was united with the Lordship of Ottenstein. Between 1530–1534, it was converted into a moated castle under Eustach Stodoligk. From 1533, it was a free property. In 1536, the complex passed to the Barons of Altena, who expanded it with a zwinger and a manor farm. After its conquest and plundering by imperial troops, the complex was rebuilt again and subsequently changed owners frequently. When it passed to Heinrich von Pereira-Arnstein in 1815, it was united with the Lordship of Wetzlas.

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The castle is idyllically situated on the cycle paths and is perfectly embedded in the landscape.

Like so many others, this beautiful moated castle is privately owned and therefore not open to the public. But very well preserved because it is managed. I was lucky that the lord of the castle personally allowed me a short tour. Story: From 1114 a ministerial family of the Kuenringers is mentioned here several times. The castle-like predecessor building, first mentioned in the Zwettler Chronicle in 1172, was owned by the Kuenringers in the 13th century and passed to the Lichteneggers around 1300 and in 1337 to the Lords of Neidegg, who owned a large part of today's community in the 15th and 16th centuries . The castle received its current appearance under Johann Hartmann von Trautmannsdorf, who came into his possession through marriage in 1581 and had it rebuilt in the Renaissance style: In the north-east corner, the local incorporation is marked 1584. Around 1670, Field Sergeant and Court Warden Ferdinand Ernst Graf Herberstein acquired the lordships of Lichtenau, Allentsgschwendt and Brunn, making Brunn the administrative center of Herberstein's possessions in Lower Austria. In 1792 Johann Graf Stiebar acquired these dominions and in 1803 Anton Edler von Meidl followed as owner. In 1812, k., who had become rich through marriage, took over. k. Lieutenant Josef Michael von Ehrenfels took over the property and undertook an extensive renovation of the castle, whereby the interior was partly furnished in the neo-baroque style. During the Second World War, Lieutenant Commander Hermann Ehrhardt acquired the castle and lived here until 1971. Today it is privately owned.

The trail from Rosenburg to here was really challenging. This view is the reward. Fantastic! To the runia: Tursenstein Castle, called Ödes Castle or Stein am Kamp, is the ruin of a medieval hilltop castle. The castle ruins are located on the so-called Kleiner Rundeberg, a towering rock cone, some of which drops perpendicularly to the Kamp, 1.7 kilometers south-southeast of Altenburg. The Counts of Poigen-Rebgau are considered to be the founders of the castle. The founding can be assumed to have taken place after the defeat of Mailberg (1082). After several changes of ownership, Stein am Kamp Castle passed to Tursen before 1337. In 1337 Reinprecht von Turs received permission to rebuild and expand the castle. In 1396, Duke Albrecht IV gave the castle to Altenburg Abbey, which was able to have the seat demolished in exchange for considerable compensation. As early as 1419, "the desolate place where Tursenstain Castle once stood" was reported. Only the remains of the walls of the originally triangular castle remain.

First mentioned in a document in 1258, in the Middle Ages Waldreichs belonged to a ring of fortified castles that were built to protect the Austrian Mark. Nothing remains of the original moated castle. In the area around Waldreichs Castle, the imperial master falconer and feudal knight Hanns Hager resided and dined from and to Allentsteig and Lichtenfels. After multiple changes of ownership and the threat of decay, the current owner, the Windhag Scholarship Foundation for Lower Austria, began to completely renovate the castle in 1983. The castle itself CANNOT be VISITED but only admired from the outside. Only those parts and the area where the Lower Austrian Falconry & Birds of Prey Center is located are freely accessible.

This mythical place can be reached via a rather tough but short climb. It pays off! Once located on a wooded rocky outcrop above the left Kampufer, the ruin now stands on a peninsula in the middle of the Ottenstein reservoir. In 1159, Duke Heinrich the second Jasomirgott enfeoffed his servant Hartung von Rauhenegg and his sons with the Veste Lichtenfels. In 1427, the Zwettl monastery brought its archives and treasures to the hidden forest castle to save the treasures from plundering Hussites. In 1670, Lichtenfels was still a fortified castle. From the middle of the 18th century the building was neglected. Not far from the ruins there is a swimming area and a campsite.

Mighty ruin that is worth a visit.