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Burg Kühnring

Austria

You come to Kühnring looking for a castle and find a parish church instead. That is the first thing to understand about this place in the market municipality of Burgschleinitz-Kühnring: the stronghold that gave its name to the Kuenringer, one of the families whose ancestral seat stood here, is almost entirely gone. What survives are a few large pieces of wall and a stretch of the old moat, lying beside the church that was once the castle's own chapel. The building you can walk into is the part that outlived everything else.

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