Burg Lockenhaus

The Burgtverne invites you to take a break

A road leads to the castle. Bike racks are available. A tour of the painstakingly restored castle really pays off. Lower Austrian card is accepted.Story:
Lockenhaus Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1242. It was built around 1200 and initially bore the name "Leuca". The oldest parts are the keep and the ring wall of the main castle. The chapel tower and the two-aisled Gothic columned hall of the Knights' Hall are somewhat younger. In the soffits of the window niches of the castle chapel there are fragments of frescoes from the 13th century. These are the oldest frescoes on a military or secular building in Burgenland.
From 1270 to 1337 the Counts of Güssing (Johann I von Héder) are named as owners.[1] Between the 14th and 17th centuries it belonged to the Kanizsay (1390 to 1535) and Nádasdy (1535 to 1672) families. After the killing of Franz III. Nádasdy the castle was pledged to Nikolaus Draskovich. In 1676 it became the property of the Esterházy family, who remained the lords of the castle until 1968.
In 1968, Paul Anton Keller and his wife acquired the castle complex, which was in a very poor condition at the time. Using their entire private assets, the family began the renovation, which was continued after Paul Anton Keller's death in 1976 by the Prof. Paul Anton Keller Foundation-Burg Lockenhaus. A total of eleven million Austrian schillings have been invested in the renovation of the buildings since 1968.