The original castle, which was later modernized to a look of renaissance mansion, is mentioned in written sources for the first time in 1311 as burk Feistritz. At the start it was a property of provincial prince, nad later it was wandering from hand to hand as pawned property or other (it was also owned by Counts of Celje from 1368 until 1456), until it was bought by count Ignacij Attems (mansion Štatenberg and Brežice), who gave the castle its present form. Attems family was the owner of the mansion until the last war. Everything remarkable, we can see today in the mansion, originates from the era of the first Attems's. Most of the artwork, statues and many things on/in or at the mansion were destroyed after World War II.

Quite a few theme exhibitions found home in the mansion, but really worth seeing are rooms, which are marked as "other" under visit offet. These are representation rooms painted with frescos and sometimes decorated with stuccos: Wedding hall, arranged in round ranaissance tower, Knight hall, two storeys high (painted by painter from baroque era, Franc Ignacij Flurer), chapel, stairway hall etc.

Building history of the mansion is only partially studied. It is obvious that the oldest castle leaned on to the north-west corner of town's defence wall with existing tower, which is by measurements and its design almost identical to the town's south-western, later Grasl's tower. Even before 1313 a present northern wing was added to the tower, which was leaned on existing defence wall. At the most in the 16^th century, probably earlier, the other three wings were added to at first modest, single-winged castle, and surrounded it with renaissance defence wall and defence towers. The next big abuttal in castle's development was year 1623. Counts Vetter von der Lilie renewed it with certain corrections which are still still preserved today. At the time the castle became posession of Attems some outbuildings were constructed southe from the mansion.
A big castle park was once located west from the mansion, surrounded with low wall. We can still see Gabr's tree avenue.

Currently there are fresco and stucco reconstruction works in progress at the mansion. The last time frescos were renewed was in 1964. Because taking photos in representation rooms (especially frescos) is not permitted, I suggest that you take a look at those by following the links below.