Fantastic castle with a winery thats definitely worth visiting, you get a personal tour and the host is the nicest person i had the pleasure meeting so far. prepared to hear a fantastic story about the castle itself and its former residents, to see rooms that other castles have usually closed of for one reason or another. Parking is up the macadam road, right infront of the castle. Be sure to try the wines the host offers, im pretty sure by the end you will have a need to buy atleast 1 bottle to...
Read moreThe castle is amazing, it has a real medieval look and it is not renovated so it has a certain historical feel to it. Unfortunately the staff at the entrance was extremly rude, upon asking if they charge for entrance he replied with the attitude: "Of course we do, you can go to forest, there everything is free ". It was a simple question and even though we were willing to pay, after reception like this there is no way I...
Read moreLeta 1278 se omenja vitez Eberhard von Visel, grad pa šele leta 1404 kot castrum Vysell. Po vitezih Bizeljskih so grad upravljali vitezi s Kozjega (Janž s Kozjega leta 1404), gospodje Dobrnski (Žiga in Andrej Dobrnski (1421)) in Soteški (Henrik in Jošt Soteški (1458)), leta 1532 so Bizeljsko dobili v fevd grofje Tattenbachi, ki so posest okoli leta 1608 pridobili (odkupili) v dedno last. Leta 1749 je bila lastnica grofica Valburga Baumgarten (rojena Tattenbach). Leta 1764 so si kot lastniki gradu sledili grofje Wildensteini oziroma grof Kajetan Wildenstein, leta 1803 grofica Maria Anna Dietrichstein. Leta 1820 je bil lastnik Franc Hirschhofer, nato pa je leta 1858 bizeljsko gospoščino kupil knez Weriand Windisch-Graetz in jo združil s gradom Kunšperkom.
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Med obema vojnama je živel na gradu grof Giovanni (Johann) Ceschi di Santa Croce (zet kneza Huga Werianda Windisch-Graetza), kasneje pa njegov zet baron Maasburg z družino. Od leta 1971 na gradu živi družina Klakočar. Grajska stavba ima obnovljeno streho, drugi deli stavbe pa so zaradi nezadostnega vzdrževanja s strani države prepuščeni...
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