The castle is in the Güns Valley, set amidst a hilly terrain in eastern Austria, near the Hungarian border towards Kőszeg.

Illyrians and Celts who settled here are credited with building the castle around 1200 with construction material available locally, although it first appears in written records dated to 1242.

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[3] In 1968, Professor Paul Anton Keller and his wife Margaret, bought the Lockenhaus Castle, which at that time was in ruins.

A Board of Trustees, established in July 1980, has managed the further restoration works undertaken with more funds collected from the public.

[4] The castle is the setting for the medieval scenes in Rudolf Steiner's mystery drama, The Soul's Probation.

[4] Red algae persistently grow near the entrance to the hall in the area where the last Knights Templar were murdered.

An audio visual presentation and night vision devices are part of the programme, arranged by the Trust Administration, which gives details on the reproduction and child rearing, hunting behavior and diet, and annual cycle of the bats.

[8] A spiral stone staircase gradually narrows until a person can no longer move forward except for a black opening in front of the feet.

Other features in the torture chamber are a narrow couch, rusty chains, stone balls, a trapdoor, manacles, crushers and pincers.

[22] The sepulchre of the Nadasdy family is built of square stones, and vaulted in round arches which rest on columns.

A second sepulchre, situated under the suite of rooms once used by the lord of the castle is dug deep into solid rock and is divided into two distinct compartments by a long line of stunted pillars upon which there are rounded arches.

[3] The castle's Festaal is used for concerts; it is the centrepiece of Kammermustikfest,[8] a chamber music festival initiated in 1982 by Pastor Herowitsch of Lockenhaus and the violinist Gidon Kremer of Riga.