On behalf of the Imperial Count Johann Maximilian I. von Herberstein, a pleasance was laid out in the second half of the 17th century. It must have required enormous efforts in those times to set up a garden like this on its rocky underground, slightly inclined towards the South. The beds were arranged geometrically. The center of the garden held a pavilion.

The heyday of this garden was in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century. Over the years it was neglected, and eventually it was destroyed completely after World War I.

In 1997, Countess Andrea of Herberstein, who currently lives in Herberstein castle with her three children, decided to reconstruct this garden in co-operation with the architect Maria Auböck and according to the historical engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer, dating from the year 1681, as well as old land register files. About 2000 tons of soil had to be moved. 1500 m of new walkways had to be laid out, a pond with 1 million litres of water capacity was built and an irrigation system with 1200 m of water pipes had to be installed.