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Castle Festenburg: guided tour

Bruck an der Lafnitz

About the offer

Let yourself be enchanted by a tour of the over 800-year-old castle and admire the many splendid and beautiful individual chapels in the Festenburg.

Tour days: Wednesday and Thursday; each at 10:00 AM
                      Sundays and public holidays: at 2:00 PM.

With prior notice, tours are also possible at other times. Prior notice is necessary for bus trips.
Phone: 0680 5568316    or: 0664 3758888

Email: diefestenburg@gmail.com    or: festenburg@aon.at

What is there to see?

  • 6 chapels and the parish church (former knight's hall) with a fresco cycle by the Vorau abbey painter Johann Cyriak Hackhofer
  • Armory with a knight's armor
  • the most important tree species in the area
  • former parish rooms: living culture around 1900  (parish office during Dr. Ottokar Kernstock's time)
  • Exhibition boards about the owners of the castle and castles along the Lafnitz 
  • the Festenburg mountain cemetery is also very worth seeing, with its wrought iron crosses. The motto for the cemetery is: "The poorest must have the chance to have a grave as beautiful as a rich person's."


Price information

Group tours

  • Cost 7€ per person
  • groups are divided from 40 persons

Admission

  • The guided tour is free with the GenussCard and the SteiermarkCard.
  • With the Styrian Family Pass - Two and More there is 10%.

About the serviceprovider

The Festenburg is located on the southern slope of the Hochwechsel, accessible via Bruck an der Lafnitz (4 km).
It was built around 1180 and was transformed from 1707 to 1725 into a kind of "monastery castle" with 6 chapels and the knights' hall serving as a church.
The Vorau monastery painter Johann Cyriak Hackhofer decorated it with a rich cycle of frescoes.

Date and time

  • 01/05/2024 - 30/09/2025
  • Wednesday - Starting at 10:00 o'clock
    Thursday - Starting at 10:00 o'clock
    Sunday - Starting at 14:00 o'clock

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