Feinfeld Castle

A Henricus from the minor noble family "Voneinfelde" is mentioned as early as 1180, and a Pobbo von Vunfelde in 1221. Knight Konrad de Vunnfelde appears in documents in 1272. The small fortified building likely still consisted largely of wooden structures in the first half of the 13th century, while the expansion in stone then took place in the second half of the same century.

The Lords of Feinfeld, as vassals of the Horn dominion, had received their seat as a fief. Albero der Vainfelder is mentioned as the last member of the family in a document from 1377, but Albero von Kuenring is already named as the lord of the manor in 1339, followed by Wolfgang von Steinach the very next year. In 1414, the Kuefstein family succeeded in acquiring Feinfeld.

They carried out further extensions and alterations until the 16th century to improve its defensibility. When Hans Lorenz von Kuefstein acquired the neighboring dominion of Greillenstein in 1534 and united Feinfeld with it, the modest castle likely became superfluous and was left to decay.

However, the complex still appears quite intact in Vischer's engraving from 1672. Photos from 1904 still show some buildings standing upright. Today, only the ruin of a tower remains.