Neu-Leonroth Castle

When the path over the Pack from the Teigitschklamm to the Gößnitzbach valley was relocated around 1300, Alt-Leonroth was abandoned and Neu-Leonroth was built near the new road. At the beginning of the 14th century, the main castle with an unusually extensive outer bailey was built by burgraves of St. Lambrecht Abbey.

Around the middle of the 14th century, the Wallseer and Leibnitzer, and around 1400 the Polheimer and Pernecker, the latter for half, held it as a fief. In 1440, Hans von Stubenberg received the fief over Leonroth. In 1442, he sold this fiefdom share in the strongholds of Alt- and Neu-Leonroth to Friedrich Lubgaster. In 1596, Leonroth appears among the beacon stations.

Since 1585, the lordship of Leonroth was reunited under the Kainachers. In 1629, this Protestant noble family had to emigrate. Andreas Freiherr von Kainach sold the castle to Provost Simon and the Chapter of Stainz on July 30, 1629. In 1630, the Provost was enfeoffed by St. Lambrecht Abbey. The lordship was now administered from Lankowitz. The castle was left to decay. As late as 1682, the priests of St. Lambrecht were granted the right to read mass in the half-ruined castle chapel of Leonroth. After the dissolution of the abbeys of Stainz and St. Lambrecht in the second half of the 19th century, the lordship of Leonroth passed to the state religious fund. The remains of the once proud castle were sold to a farmer in 1872. Today, the ruin is heavily dilapidated and overgrown.