VR glasses compatible (e.g. Quest 3)
These last remains of the walls can certainly be described as a ‚lost castle‘. Today it is freely accessible, but hidden in the forest without a clear path or sign. Although it was not built that early (around 1300), it was already referred to as the ‚Old Castle‘ in 1621, which was not its real name. However, ‚Burg Luegg‘ is not the correct name either. The correct name could be ‚Schau-Ins-Land‘ (looking into the landscape). In 1321 it is mentioned as ‚Castrum Luginslant‘ and in 1373 as ‚Veste Luginsland‘. “Lug ins Land” (look into the land) is also an old name for a lookout tower or watchtower.
The tour is an exercise in imagination and creativity - so little of the building remains today. For help, some graphical aids have been incorporated into the tour.
If you look around on site, you can roughly see the geometry. A ring wall surrounds the keep and perhaps one or two small buildings. Three sides of the ring wall were protected on the outside by a clearly visible moat.
On Wikipedia the description of the building reads as follows:
The surviving building fabric is so minimal that the floor plan and shape of the castle can largely only be guessed at. The complex was surrounded by a longitudinally rectangular, approximately 1.4 metre thick ring wall, which was built directly on the steep slope in the eastern part. A four metre high section of this wall in the southeastern part of the complex as well as some remains of the foundations are still preserved today. An additional rampart and ditch system was built on the less steep slopes to the north, south and west. There was probably a palisade on the shoulder of the rampart. Access to the castle was probably from the west.
In the southern part of the castle, a section of the northern wall, around five metres high and around one metre thick, still indicates an almost square keep. This probably originally had a side length of around eight metres. Both the keep and the ring wall consist of irregular quarry stone masonry, which indicates that it was built at the turn of the 13th to 14th century. The keep has horizontal alignments with a layer height of 40 to 50 centimetres. In the northwest there are remains of a rectangular building that was probably built directly onto the ring wall. In the northeast there is a depression that could indicate a former cistern.
Help for the tour
The virtual tour is best experienced in full screen (double click on the image or click on the button at the bottom right), on a large PC monitor with headphones or speakers. Simple reconstructions of the former building structure become visible under the mouse cursor (or when touching the touchscreen). Small details are pointed out using information symbols.
At the top right, an orientation plan and/or a map can be activated, at the right edge the music can be set to mute, a compass can be hidden or shown and switched to English.
If you activate the home button at the top of the screen, you get to the aerial photo/overview and back again.
The tour, like all the others, can be experienced with VR glasses such as a Quest 3. Without additional software – simply enter the URL of this page in the browser of the glasses, activate the VR button that is then visible there – done.
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Luegg_(Semriach)
- https://wehrbauten.at/stmk/steiermark.html?/stmk/luegg_s/luegg.html
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