The best-known castles and palaces in Lower Austria
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
.JPG){kind=link}
.JPG){kind=link}
.JPG){kind=link}
Lower Austria wraps around Vienna, and its castles are spread across the whole state. Burg Liechtenstein, dating from 1130, is 2 km from Mödling, Schloss Laxenburg Blauer Hof 6 km. Near St. Pölten are Schallaburg (21 km), Burgruine Aggstein (20 km) and Schloss Grafenegg (26 km). Burg Kreuzenstein is 7 km from Stockerau, Rothschildschloss 19 km from Amstetten, and Burg Raabs dates from the 11th century.
RLQuest knows 421 castles and palaces in Lower Austria, and 272 of them come with a Wikipedia article. The state also has 61 observation towers on a page of its own, several of them within reach of the same towns. RLQuest turns a visit into a quest it can check: you walk there, the app reads your track, and the map fills in behind you.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 369 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
