Castles Tour

Only a few kilometers after our start we find the ruins of Fohnsdorf and we have a wonderful view of the entire Aichfeld and continue to the former trading town of Judenburg. There is the landmark of the city tower of the historic city. Today the tower houses the most modern planetarium in Europe and offers spectacular dome projections at a height of 50 m. Furthermore, we find Liechtenstein Castle directly in Judenburg. We continue to Unzmarkt where we find the Frauenburg on the other side of the Mur. It is curvy over the Neumarkter Sattel to Neumarkt, where we can drive up to Forchtenstein Castle directly in the village. At the border with Carinthia, Dürnstein Castle awaits us and we drive a few kilometers further to the castle town of Friesach with its 3 historic castles and our own castle building project. Near Friesach is the Totentanzmuseum, the only surviving frescoes of a monumental death dance from the 15th century in Austria. We drive to St. Lamprecht with its beautiful landscape and the Benedictine monastery and beautiful monastery garden. We head back towards Teufenbach where we can already see the Alt-Teufenbach castle of the same name, one of the oldest still inhabited castles in Styria. We turn off in Oberzeiring and make a short detour and stop at the entrance to Oberwölz and look at Rothenfels Castle, which has retained its original image to this day. A few kilometers back we drive over the winding Lachtal with a view on the left to the Gellsee to Oberzeiring. After the junction towards Pöls, we see the Hochgericht vom Birkachwald near Unterzeiring on the right, of which the gallows is still clearly visible today.