!!!Riegersburg
 
Riegersburg Castle, Styria, district of Feldbach; in the 16%%sup th/%  
century the castles of Liechteneck and Kronegg, which had been built 
on a 100-metre-high basalt rock massif in the 13%%sup th/%  century 
(documented mention after 1122), were rebuilt to become the most 
important Styrian frontier fortress with 11 bastions and six gates. 
Begun after 1571, the building process was continued in the 
17%%sup th/%  century (by Elisabeth von Galler and Count J. E. 
Purgstall). The castle of Kronegg is arranged around two courtyards, 
one courtyard has a pergola and a wrought-iron fountain (1640). 
Sumptuous interiors; Rittersaal (knight´s hall, around 1600) 
with coffered ceiling; white room (1658) with stuccowork. Several 
richly decorated rooms dating from the 16%%sup th/%  and 17%%sup th/%  
centuries; late Gothic chapel (15%%sup th/%  century) with frescoes. 
Since 1822 property of the Prince of Liechtenstein; severely damaged 
in 1945, renovated between 1950 and 1969.

!Literature
H. Valentinitsch (ed.), Hexen und Zauberer, exhibition 
catalogue, Riegersburg 1987.



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