The castle has its fair share of ghost stories, the most famous of which is the phantom of Countess Agnes. The countess was promised in marriage to the Knight of Braunsberg but during a feast to celebrate the match, she rebuffed her suitor, publicly humiliating him. Enraged by the rejection, the spurned knight organised an attack on the castle. After a valiant fight, she was struck by a crossbow and fatally injured, and her ghost is said to still haunt the castle.

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