Castle hike

Drasing Castle

Drasing Castle stands on a wooded hill north of Krumpendorf. It was first mentioned in documents in 1284 and 1362. It probably already existed during Carolingian times as a forecastle of the Pfalz Moosburg. From 1492 to 1640, Drasing was owned by the Feulner family. In 1842/1843, Thaddäus Lanner had the castle renovated and the tower at the southeast corner raised. Today the property is privately owned.

The castle is a three-story, fortress-like Renaissance building from the 16th century with a tower at the southeast corner and battlement crowns in the middle section of the north and south fronts. Above the northern entrance portal is the newly made coat of arms of the Feulner family. The square arcaded courtyard has pillars and column arcades. At a stone portal on the first floor, there is an empty coat of arms shield and stone mason signs. In the knights' hall on the second floor of the east wing is a green glazed tiled stove in Renaissance style. The chapel, first mentioned in 1660 in the ground floor of the west wing, contains a painting from 1698 depicting Christ on the cross.

Hornstein Castle

Hornstein Castle stands on a wooded slope north of Krumpendorf. It was built in the 15th century by Ulrich Hornsteiner. Around the middle of the 18th century, the castle was owned by the Counts of Ursenböck. In 1757, they received a mass license for the castle chapel from the Bishop of Lavant, Johann Baptist von Thurn und Taxis. In 1865, Otto Daublesky Baron von Sterneck purchased the castle. Today the property is privately owned. In the mid-19th century, Markus Pernhart depicted the castle as part of his cycle of castles.

The castle is a small, three-axis, cubic building with a hipped roof. On the northeast and southwest corners are two round corner towers facing each other diagonally with flat conical roofs. On the north side is a later extension. Above the rusticated round-arch portal, the double coat of arms of Sterneck-Dickmann was added around 1860. On the wall at the courtyard entrance, there is a damaged baroque double coat of arms with a putto.

Krumpendorf Castle

Krumpendorf Castle in Krumpendorf am Wörthersee was built from 1735 to 1740 by Ursula von Schluga and was extended and given a new facade by Thaddäus von Lanner in 1820/21. Since 1952, the property has belonged to the ÖGB and is used as a training facility.

The castle is a simple five or six-axis, three-story building with a high hipped roof. The facades are divided by one- or two-axis central projections and gable crowns on the west and east sides. The hall on the ground floor has a barrel vault with groin vaults and belt arches. The marble Renaissance door frame comes from Limmersach and was used there as a fireplace decoration. In the so-called ladies' room on the first floor, the floor shows inlaid work. The baroque grille on the east side facing the street was brought here from Silberegg. Of the two former dairy buildings east of the castle, the seven-axis one was built at the same time as the castle and extended in 1823; the other was built in 1827 and later remodeled in a new building. A similar remodeling was done to the former stable building southeast from 1827.

North of the castle, on the opposite side of the street, Lanner laid out an English garden in 1828 as part of an agricultural experimental garden. The southern of the two garden houses was painted with a fresco of Pomona in the classical gable in 1891. The park contains a Roman bowl fountain and, on either side of the stone steps, two Roman grave inscriptions from Virunum.