Ruins of Neu-Leonroth Castle A-8580 St. Martin am Wöllmißberg

Type: Interesting

Description:
Around 1300, when the road over the Pack from the Teigitschklamm was rerouted to the Gößnitzbachtal, Alt-Leonroth was abandoned and Neu-Leonroth was built near the new road. At the beginning of the 14th century, the main castle was built with an exceptionally extensive outer bailey by the burgraves of the St. Lambrecht monastery. Around the middle of the 14th century, the Wallseer and Leibnitzer families held the castle as a fief, around 1400 the Polheimer and Pernecker families, the latter half, 1440 Hans von Stubenberg received the fief over Leonroth. In 1442 he sold his share of the fief on the fortified Alt- and Neu-Leonroth to Friedrich Lubgaster. In 1596 Leonroth appears among the chalk fire signal stations.

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