Castle
Schachenstein Castle
🇦🇹 Austria · 15th century
The ruins of Schachenstein Castle (German: Burg Schachenstein) are located in the municipality of Thörl, above the village not far from the Thörlbach stream and north of Bruck an der Mur in the Styria, Austria.
Schachenstein Castle was the last hill castle to be built in the Styria. Its primary role was as a fortified, lordly residence, thus no subjects were in service to the castle captains. The castle was never besieged, despite serious unrest such as the Baumkircher feud and Turkish raids.
Text adapted from “Schachenstein Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schachenstein Castle ranks #4,175 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #126 of the 182 mapped in Austria. Founded 1464, it is older than 52% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 224 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. See how Austria compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →More castles in Austria
- Strechau Castle Austria
- Burg Wels Austria
- Weiherburg Austria · 15th century
- Burg Grub Austria
More castles
- Castle Velhartice Czech Republic · 13th century
- Castle Stetteneck Italy
- Portuguese Castle (Qeshm) Iran
- Felsenburg Switzerland