Greillenstein Castle

Niederösterreich · Østerrike · Castle

At Greillenstein a headless count plays pranks, a white countess watches over her descendants – and the grass grows taller in the executed man's wheel tracks.

The Renaissance castle of Greillenstein in the Waldviertel counts among Austria's most haunted houses. A headless count is said to amuse himself frightening the residents, while the White Lady – the 18th-century Countess Susanna Maria von Kuefstein – walks the halls in white, shielding her descendants from harm. The castle also keeps the legend of the gardener wrongly executed for the murder of a girl whose body was found in the pond; ever since, the grass is said to grow taller in the very wheel ruts the ox cart cut on his final journey. The legends inspired Franz Grillparzer, a guest at the castle in 1807, to write his ghost drama Die Ahnfrau, and candlelit ghost tours are still held today.

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Hvor ligger Greillenstein Castle?

Greillenstein Castle ligger i Niederösterreich, Østerrike.