Schloss Weildegg

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Weildegg Castle, also called Waldegg, is located in the village of Würmlach in the municipality of Kötschach-Mauthen.

In 1537, the Villach councilman and merchant Hieronymus Weyland the Elder converted an estate in Würmlach into a Renaissance castle. Today, the estate belongs to the Aichwalder family, which rents out vacation apartments in the castle and makes the building available for cultural events on a case-by-case basis.

The castle is a fortress-like, three- to four-story, square building with four circular corner towers and a tent roof. The attic floor is pierced by shooting windows, and on the east side there is a pitch nose above the entrance. Windows and doors are framed by sgraffito flaps. The two biforium windows above the eastern and western entrance gates belong to a large hall with painted coats of arms of the Kulmer and Gängel-Ehrenwert families from 1648.

Coordinates: 46°39'24"N, 13°0'46"E

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Schloss Weildegg – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Gailtaler Polinik, Kellerspitzen, Burgruine Weidenburg, Museum 1915-1918.

2.4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Gailtaler Polinik
63 min walk • The Gailtaler Polinik is a mountain, 2,332 m above sea level, in the Carnic Alps in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It lies on the main ridge of the Carnics and is the highest peak of the Eastern group.
6.3 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Kellerspitzen
160 min walk • The twin peaks of the Kellerspitzen form the second highest mountain in the Carnic Alps, a mountain range in the Southern Limestone Alps.
2.2 miE
Forts and castles
Burgruine Weidenburg
57 min walk • Burgruine Weidenburg is a large castle in Carinthia, Austria.
1.2 miNW
Museum, Specialty museum
Museum 1915-1918
31 min walk • Museum 1915-18 is an anti-war museum located in the town hall in the market town of Kötschach-Mauthen in Carinthia. The museum of the Association of Friends of the Dolomites documents the mountain war 1915-1918 in the First World War between...
1.3 miNW
Town
Kötschach-Mauthen
34 min walk • Kötschach-Mauthen is a market town in the district of Hermagor in Carinthia in Austria.
0.8 miNW
Church
Hl. Markus
20 min walk • The Roman Catholic parish church of Mauthen in the municipality of Kötschach-Mauthen in Carinthia is under the patronage of St. Mark. In 1466 the church finds its first documentary mention.
2 miE
Church
Pfarrkirche hl. Daniel
53 min walk • The parish church of St. Daniel im Gailtal in the municipality of Dellach, Carinthia, Austria is considered the original parish of the upper Gailtal and the Lesachtal.
6 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Eiskar
152 min walk • The Eiskar is the only existing glacier in the Carnic Alps. It is a typical cirque glacier that, thanks to its shady location and to avalanche breaks in its catchment area, has been able to survive at the relatively low height of 2160–2390 metres above sea level.
4.4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Kleiner Pal - Pal piccolo
112 min walk • The Kleine Pal is a mountain 1867 m above sea level in the Carnic Main Ridge in the border area between Carinthia and Italy. It is located near the village of Kötschach-Mauthen. In the Alpine mountain war 1915-1918 it was the scene of a war ...
3.9 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Torkofel
101 min walk • Torkofel is a mountain of the Gailtal Alps in Carinthia, Austria. It is the highest summit of the Jauken Group, a small limestone massif west of Reißkofel. It lies between the Drava valley to the north and the Gail valley in the south. It was first climbed in 1853 by the Johann Festin von Wald and Paul Grohmann.
5 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Creta di Collinetta - Frischenkofel
128 min walk • Frischenkofel, better known as Cellon, is a 2238-meter-high mountain massif in the Carnic Alps, located immediately west of the Plöckenpass road. The mountain peak is located in the border area between the Austrian province of Carinthia and the...