Fortress · Dürnstein, Lower Austria
Dürnstein Castle Ruins
Burgruine Dürnstein · Ruine Dürnstein
The Dürnstein castle ruins are the remains of the medieval castle of the Kuenring family in Dürnstein in the Wachau, Lower Austria.
Why go
This record is the ruin, not Stift Dürnstein in the town and not Burg Dürnstein in Styria. The regional tourism board's page says the castle was built between 1140 and 1145, that it was the castle Hadmar of Kuenring had built, and that Duke Leopold V held the English king Richard the Lionheart prisoner there in 1192 and 1193, after Richard tore up the Austrian flag on his return from the crusade and refused to share the spoils of war; it adds that Richard was set free after a ransom of 150,000 marks of silver and that the singer's entertainment probably gave rise to the legend of the minstrel Blondel. The listing names the town of Dürnstein (Stadtgemeinde Dürnstein) as the contact.
Near Dürnstein Castle Ruins
Monastery
Dürnstein Abbey
Dürnstein Abbey (Stift Dürnstein) is the former Augustinian canons' monastery with the blue-and-white church tower in Dürnstein in the Wachau, Lower Austria, owned by Herzogenburg Abbey and now shown as a museum.
0 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Gallery
Kunsthalle Krems
The Kunsthalle Krems is an exhibition hall for international contemporary art on the Kunstmeile in Krems an der Donau, in a former 19th-century tobacco factory in Stein.
5 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Gallery
State Gallery of Lower Austria
The State Gallery of Lower Austria (Landesgalerie Niederösterreich) is the museum for the art collections of the province of Lower Austria on the Museumsplatz of the Kunstmeile in Krems an der Donau, opened in 2019.
5 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Monastery
Göttweig Abbey
Göttweig Abbey (Stift Göttweig) is a Benedictine abbey at 422 metres above sea level on the eastern edge of the Danube valley of the Wachau, in the municipality of Furth bei Göttweig, Lower Austria.
8 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ