Castle Festenburg: guided tour
General Information
Let yourself be enchanted by the over 800-year-old castle during a tour and visit 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 can also be arranged at other times. Prior notice is required for bus trips.
Tel. 0680 5568316 or: 0664 3758888
Email: diefestenburg@gmail.com or: festenburg@aon.at
What can you see?
- 6 chapels and the parish church (former knights' hall) with a fresco cycle by the Vorau monastery painter Johann Cyriak Hackhofer
- Armory with a knight's armor
- the most important tree species of the area
- former parish rooms: living culture around 1900 (parish office during Dr. Ottokar Kernstock's time)
- Information boards about the owners of the castle and castles along the Lafnitz
- the Festenburg 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."
Bus parking: Castle Festenburg, walking minutes: 2
About the offer
Price information
The tour is free with the GenussCard and the SteiermarkCard.
Contact and Arrival
Contact
Castle Festenburg: guided tour
diefestenburg@gmail.com Website +43 680 55 68 316 +43 664 37 58 888Operator
Burg FestenburgBurg Festenburg
Festenburg 1,
8251 Bruck an der Lafnitz AT