Castle
Bizeljsko Castle
🇸🇮 Slovenia · 14th century
Bizeljsko Castle (Slovene: grad Bizeljsko; grad Orešje, German: Schloss Wisell) is a castle in Bizeljska Vas, a village in the Municipality of Brežice, in southeastern Slovenia. It consists of a residential part that forms the centre of the complex and includes a Baroque chapel, as well as an outer part that served a defensive purpose.
The castle was mentioned for the first time in written sources in 1404. It has belonged to the families Tattenbach and Windisch-Graetz, among others. The oldest parts of the now-visible structure date from the 14th century, and the castle has been rebuilt and expanded gradually over the centuries.
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Bizeljsko Castle ranks #4,280 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #27 of the 28 mapped in Slovenia. Founded c. 1350, it is older than 61% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 346 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. See how Slovenia compares in the castle statistics.
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