Top 4 Castles around Globasnitz

very nice

Schloss Elberstein Fairy-tale castle built by oneself: Some build a house, others a castle. Ludmilla and Johann Elbe from Globasnitz show how to get a sweet castle with a coat of arms and a resounding name, even without millions in the bank.

Neudenstein Castle (Slovenian: Črni Grad) stands on a rocky cone above the northern shore of the Völkermarkt reservoir in the municipality of Völkermarkt. Because of its dark walls, the complex is also known as the "Black Castle". The Slovene name of the castle also refers to this. The castle was built in 1329 under Konrad von Auffenstein. The walls of the south and east wings from this period are still preserved. Due to an uprising in which the Auffensteiners were also involved, the castle fell to the Carinthian dukes in 1368, who successively handed over the castle to loyalists, including the Himmelbergers, the Lords of Graben, the Plumeggers, the Windisch-Graetz, the Kemetters and the Mandorff. In the 16th century, renovations and additions were probably made under Ursula Plumegger. In the second half of the 17th century, the castle underwent another transformation under the Kemeter family. The Carinthian landscape painter Gilbert von Canal lived here at the beginning of the 20th century, and some of his works are still in the castle today. In 1970 the Comelli-Stuckenfeld family acquired the facility.

There were a total of four castles with the name Weißenegg in the Austrian provinces, of which the castle near Ruden was probably the ancestral castle of the Weißeneggers. The oldest known descendant of the Weißenegger family is said to have been Wülfing von Wizzeneck, who is said to have lived around 1120. The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1243 as dominus de Wizenekke. Dietmar von Weißenegg, a ministerial of the diocese of Bamberg, appears several times in documents between 1244 and 1263. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the Weißeneggers were an important noble family in Carinthia, they provided several bishops and were also active in the military. From the year 1300 Weißenegg was the seat of a district court, which also included Ruden. In 1332 the property was sold to the Lords of Walsee. Eberhard von Walsee († 1363), who had no descendants, inherited the castle and dominion from his cousins Ulrich and Hermann I von Cilli. The Counts of Cilli stayed on Weißenegg until 1425, then Hermann II von Cilli exchanged Weißenegg and Hartneidstein with the bishopric of Bamberg for the lordship of Mauthenberg (Hohenmauthen/Muta). Weißenegg remained in Bamberg until 1759, when the diocese sold its estates in Carinthia to the Austrian Empire. The castle was already deserted at this point. In 1775 Maximilian Thaddäus Freiherr von Egger acquired the castle, which from then on remained in the possession of his descendants for over a century. In 1885 the barons Ferdinand and Karl Helldorf bought the property, and in 1936 the extensive forests with the ruins passed to the Leitgeb family of industrialists from Kühnsdorf, who are still the owners today.

Fairytale castle, built by Ludmilla and carpenter Johann Elbe, in the middle of Globasnitz

Elberstein Castle stands on a steep cliff above the Görtschitz Valley in the northeast of the Austrian state of Carinthia.

Unfortunately private and not to visit!

The whole castle was built by myself, a life's work, Hats off, it's worth seeing!