Pišece Castle (, ) is a

castle A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...

Pišece Pišece (, ) is a village in the hills west of Bizeljsko in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Styria, Styria. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sav ...

, Slovenia. The castle appears for the first time in written sources in 1329, and was built to serve the

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who had estates in the area. The archbishops kept the

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rights over the castle until 1803, although the castle had been bought in 1595 by the Moscon noble family. A lawsuit determining the proper ownership of the castle was not concluded until 1637, however; it ruled in the favour of the Moscon family. The family owned the castle until the end of

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. Reconstruction works have been carried out at the castle in 1568, during the

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era, in 1867 and 1884.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pisece Castle Castles in Styria (Slovenia) Cultural monuments of Slovenia