The history of the castle dates back to the 12th century and is closely related to that of the Counts of Heunburg. Between 1170 and 1180 Ulrich von Heunberg was mentioned in a document, who was called Graf von Sternberg from 1267.
In 1311, Countess Katharina von Sternberg sold the castle to Duke Heinrich VI of Carinthia, who gave it back to her as a fief. Count Walther the Elder J., the last male Sternberger, sold the estate to Count Otto von Ortenburg in 1329, probably with the consent of the feudal lord. When the Counts of Ortenburg died out in 1418, the Habsburgs inherited the Ortenburg estates on the basis of a will from 1377.
King Siegmund lent the castle to Count Hermann II of Cilli in 1420, disregarding the feudal rights of the Carinthian dukes. Count Ulrich von Cilli gave Sternberg Jan Witowetz as a favorite. The Emperor Friedrich III subsequently gave the Sternberg fortress. When the war between Emperor Friedrich III and the Görzern broke out because of the Cillier heritage, the fortress and Hohenwart were destroyed by the Emperor's troops around 1456 and were not rebuilt. The emperor united Sternberg with the Landskron rulers and presented them to the Order of St. George. After the dissolution of the order of knights, the Sternberg ruins fell back to the Habsburgs. Emperor Ferdinand I sold it to Bernhard Khevenhüller in 1545. After various owners, the Hippel family bought the facility in 1938. The former keep, the walls of which are still visible up to the ground floor, now form the substructure of the house.
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