Cmurek Castle

It stands on a steep cliff above the bridge over the Mura River at Trate, the international border crossing to the Austrian village of Mureck.

In 1174 Reinbert of Cmurek was the chief chamberlain (procurator) at the court of the Styrian Border Count Ottokar IV.

After the original owners died out in 1245, the manor and the castle were inherited by the von Traungaus, ministerial lords of Traungau.

The castle is still Romanesque in its irregular layout, with a Renaissance arcaded courtyard and peripheral residential tracts in the core, although 16th-century alterations have considerably obliterated the original architectural designs.

Since 2014, the Museum of Madness[3] has been housed in its premises, with the aim of preserving the history of the castle and the Institute for the Mentally and Nervously Ill.