Top 11 Castles around Fraham

Ottensheim Castle was founded by the high-free Wilheringers.

Schaunberg ruins: open all year round!

Puchberg Castle was built in the 16th century and is surrounded by a beautiful park. Today it is a horseshoe-shaped complex, in the courtyard there is a fountain (from the 18th century) with a sandstone figure on it. On the entrance gate to the farm buildings there are stone figures of St. Mary and other saints from around 1740. Since 1953 the castle has belonged to the diocese of Linz, which set up a training center here.

You can choose the right room for your event from 18 modern event rooms of various sizes (10 to 400 people). With the exception of the Hall of Mirrors and the Red Bar, the entire building is accessible for the disabled. In our guest house we offer you well-kept accommodation, so that you can not only spend the night in the house, but also withdraw in the rest periods. We have 47 double rooms, 40 single rooms, 11 double rooms, each with shower/toilet, a total of 156 beds. Room amenities: free internet access, clock radio, desk, hair dryer, magnifying mirror.

The ruins of Schaumburg are really beautiful and then up Strohheim there is a beautiful chapel and a beautiful show garden, a tip for spring.L.g.anni

The Renaissance palace, built from 1595 and most recently extended in 2002, is the education center of the Diocese of Linz and has been a center of adult education in Austria for almost 70 years. The central location in the north of the city of Wels, the good accessibility by car or train and the special atmosphere make Puchberg Castle particularly attractive for organizers of seminars and conferences beyond the borders of the state.

Exciting history of the castle (source Wikipedia): The Knights of Gelting settled in Haiding around 1312 and built a fortified moated castle here. The Schaunbergers, who claimed this area for themselves, took the castle, burned it down and forced the Geltings to declare that they never wanted to build Haiding as a castle again. After the Schaunbergers were conquered by the Habsburgs, Ulrich Geltinger received Haiding in 1386 as a sovereign fief. After this family died out, a Hostorffer received the estate – presumably as a princely caretaker. It is unknown how the property came to the Rondinelli; In any case, a Hans Sigmund Rondinelli sold the Haiding seat to Count Engelbert Katzianer; As late as 1674, a Sigmund Ferdinand Katzianer was resident on the property, which had grown into a castle. In 1727 the castle was owned by Count Wilhelm Strattmann. He had bought the castle from the Katzians and added his entailed estate to the Peuerbach estate. Until the abolition of the entail in 1825, Haiding belonged to the Strattmann-Batthyany estates. After a division of property, Haiding passed to Prince Philipp Batthyany. In 1879 Prince Wilhelm Alfred Montenuovo, who was married to Juliane Batthyany, inherited the castle. Three years later, the prince sold the uninhabited castle to Hans and Maria Pauler, who used it as a farm. At the beginning of the 20th century the castle was left to decay. It was only renovated in 1970 by the master builder and penultimate owner Friedrich Achleitner and now by his son. The building is a historical monument.

The castle is the residence of the head of the Starhemberg family. It also houses three museums and is used as Eferding's cultural center. Starhemberg Castle, also known as Eferding Castle, has been owned by the princely Starhemberg family for around 450 years, with the exception of a brief interruption between 1630 and 1660. In the 12th century there was already an official seat of the diocese of Passau at the same place, which was sold to the Counts of Schaunberg in the 14th century.