Brunn Castle

Brunn first appears in records in 1198. Presumably, the small, water-surrounded fortified house was built in the second half of the 12th century by Henricus de Prun, a follower of Duke Leopold VI.

The ring wall likely originated later. After the Lords of Brunn died out in the second half of the 13th century, the ownership of the fortress changed quite frequently. Around the middle of the 14th century, the lordship belonged to the Land Marshal Leopold von Stadeck, who sold it to Härtl von Teuffenbach in 1359. In the 15th century, the Teuffenbach family owned Brunn as a fief of the Styrian dukes. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Dürr family appears as owners.

They were followed by the Lords of Rappach and then the Harrach family. In the 17th century, Brunn was an estate of the Herberstein and Zinzendorf families. The simple building was expanded at that time into the form shown in Georg Matthäus Vischer's engraving from 1672. Between 1708 and 1711, under the then lord, Prince Paul Esterhazy, the castle was expanded to its current form. He had the moat, whose protection was no longer needed, filled in and the grounds designed in the style of a French garden.

In 1768, a devastating earthquake caused severe damage, which could only be repaired with considerable effort. At the end of the Second World War, the castle suffered from combat operations and looting. Schloss Brunn is now privately owned and serves as a residence and the center of an estate.