Fortress · Launsdorf, Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Carinthia
Hochosterwitz Castle
Burg Hochosterwitz
Hochosterwitz Castle is a castle in the municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee in Carinthia, north-east of Klagenfurt, whose castle path passes through 14 gates.
Why go
Hochosterwitz Castle is in the municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee in Carinthia, with its postal address in Launsdorf. The castle's own site says visitors can climb up through the 14 castle gates, whose names and dates between 1570 and 1583 it lists, or ride the Fürst-Max-Bahn inclined lift, and that its armoury, weapons collection and Renaissance pictures tell the castle's history. A marble plaque of 1576 in the upper courtyard, quoted on the site, records that Georg Khevenhüller fortified the castle at his own expense and ordered that it should never leave his family. The site prohibits drone flights on and above the castle. The castle is not in Klagenfurt, which is a base for it.
Near Hochosterwitz Castle
Monument
Lindwurm Fountain
The Lindwurm Fountain is the fountain with the stone dragon, the Lindwurm, and the figure of Hercules on the Neuer Platz in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee.
18 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Klagenfurt Cathedral
Klagenfurt Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Gurk in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul and built in the late 16th century as a Protestant church.
18 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Lake
Wörthersee
The Wörthersee is a lake in Carinthia, Austria, with the city of Klagenfurt on its east bay and Velden, Pörtschach, Krumpendorf and Maria Wörth among the places in its tourism region.
28 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Historic site
Eggenberg Palace
Eggenberg Palace is the Baroque residence of the Eggenberg family in the west of Graz, begun in 1625 and run by the Universalmuseum Joanneum, with its state rooms, landscaped park and three museums.
80 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ