Burgruine Lichtengraben/Painburg

Austria, Austria

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Burgruine Lichtengraben/Painburg, also known as Burgruine Painburg, Buine Teufenbach, or Ruine Painburg, is a medieval castle ruin in Carinthia, Austria, located in the village of Lichtengraben (part of the municipality of Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal) in the Wolfsberg district.

The site is linked to the former Gothic water castle called Painhof that was built after 1420, with significant extensions at the end of the 15th century and in the first half of the 16th century, and the surviving masonry includes parts of an earlier structure identified as the medieval Painburg beneath the later gothic “Painhof”.

The ruin stands about 200 metres north of Schloss Lichtengraben, is protected as a monument, and consists of multi-storey wall remains, set in forested terrain near the settlement’s houses, making it a small, locally accessible medieval landmark rather than a major tourist destination.