Grünbühel Castle

Around 1074, the place is mentioned for the first time with the high-ranking nobleman Adalbert von Kilb. In the 12th century, the dominion came to Rudolf von Perg through marriage. Friedrich von Perg was inherited by the Babenberg Duke Leopold V in 1191. In the 13th century, a knightly family again named themselves after Kilb. In 1410, a knight von Sebeck is named as the owner. In 1460, Jörg von Pottendorf sold his castle in Kilb to Bernhard von Tiernstein, who undertook extensive reconstruction and bequeathed it ten years later to the brothers Rüdiger and Jörg von Starhemberg, but also promised the fortified building to his grandson Georg von Velderndorf. The latter probably actually received it, because in 1521 Hans Velderndorfer sold the fortress, which was by then called Grünbühel, to Göttweig Abbey. In 1534, he bought it back, but finally sold it in 1549 to Jakob Gienger.

Jakob's son Nikolaus had the old fortified building converted into a more comfortable Renaissance castle. Subsequently, the owners usually changed quite quickly. Around the middle of the 17th century, the Barons Ruess von Ruessenstein came into possession of the castle. Only the Barons and later Counts Wickenburg owned Grünbühel from 1720 for a longer period. In 1830, Karl Theodor Graf Wickenburg had major construction work carried out, which gave the building its current appearance. In 1845, the castle came into rapidly changing bourgeois ownership. From 1969 to 2004, it belonged to the Friedel-Klarenberg family. Since then, Dr. Georg Graf Pachta-Reyhofen has been the lord of Grünbühel Castle. The building has been continuously inhabited to this day.