The castle region Ausserfern covers numerous castle stables, castles, locks, city attachments and fortifications in the southern and the Tiroler Ausserfern. The transnational planning concept would like to prepare in addition, for routistic purposes evaluate the castle wealth of the region scientific.

The castle region

The area over feet and Reutte belonged in the high Middle Ages to a large extent to pilotfishes sphere of influence. After the death of the last Staufers Konradin both the dukes from Bavaria and the counts von Tirol requirements on the inheritance raised. Beside these two "„great powers "“also the bishops of Augsburg, pin the Kempten, the noble-free Mr. von Hohenegg and the counts von Montfort were in this region wealthy. The counts von Tirol increased finally their territory at expense of the Hohenegger northward.

These complicated rule conditions entailed the plant of numerous weir systems and aristocracy seats. For this reason one can almost completely reconstruct here today the development of the attachment nature from the tower hill castle to the baroque fortification. The romance 19. Century added this existence still the "“fairy tale locks"” new swan stone and high swan gau.

The "“office for castle research"” of the Middle Ages archaeologist Joachim Zeune has relevant portion of the conception of the transnational castle region. Zeune could fall back here to its experiences with the plant of the Burgenkundlichen of didactic exhibition of hate mountains. In the last years 20. Century began measures of reorganization at the castles Hohenfreyberg, hop and honour mountain. Some these measures are not undisputed however. Particularly the eradication on the lock head, a large baroque fortress over the castle honour mountain, is criticized by nature friends. However the deforestation of the almost completely forgotten plant was a substantial condition for the reorganization, which might drag on still many years. In the Klause under the castle and the fortress the European castle museum is furnished at the same time. On the area of the Klause since 2004 annually in July "„the Ehrenberger time journey is organized "“, which is considered as one of the largest historical festivals of Europe and which castle region admits far away made.

The castles and locks were equipped with info. boards and summarized in a brochure. Some the castles are lit up, on the lock head with Reutte is at night an observation tower planned.

The castles and locks

The type of the tower hill castle (moth) is represented by the castle stable Seeg, on whose summit plateau however for some decades a holiday house thront.

As the oldest stone castle of the is considered the castle hop, whose foundations were released after the year 2000 from the debris and reorganized fundamentally.

Over Unterpinswang in Tirol the small cave castle hole lies, the few wall remainders was properly conserved also here.

One of the few high-medieval coat wall castles is the large castle ruin iron mountain already with Pfronten, those in the eighties 20. Jhdts by the municipality and the castle association was reorganized.

Far away the neighbour castle Hohenfreyberg is appropriate for only five going minutes on the one of the last large castle new buildings of the German Middle Ages. The internationally considered sample reorganization of the latemedieval summit castle progressed already far.

The lategothical lock in Hopferau was converted around 1840 again-gothical and serves since 2005 as hotel and catering trade enterprise.

Opposite the ruin falcon stone is awake over the state border. In place "„actually Ludwig II. a romantic lock should develop for celebrations of the house "“of the original castle in styles of new swan stone after the will "“of the fairy tale king"”. The project was defeated however by the death of the monarch.

Over the Tiroler small town Vils kept with the donjon of the castle Vilsegg one of the most important examples pilot Fischer architecture in Tirol.

The Grenzstadt feet retained extensive remainders of its city attachment beside the gothical "“high lock"” of the bishops of Augsburg. The lock accommodates today a branch gallery of the Bavarian state painting collections.

Over Nesselwang the ruin of the Nesselburg (private property) lies. A short Schildmauer is submitted to the rectangular Palas of the small Veste.

The market Reutte is towered above by one of the most important fortress ensembles of Central Europe. Around the castle honour mountain and the Klause group themselves the away Claudia (high-dig) and the fortress lock head.

Supervises the remote passport the castle remote stone with the associated Klause as dam. In the proximity the lock ruin Sigmundsburg lies on an island in the remote stone lake.

The two "“fairy tale locks"” of Ludwig IITH new swan stone and high swan gau are world-well-known under three-landhit a corner at the the border mountain between Upper Bavaria, Swabia and Tirol.

Literature

Joachim Zeune: Castle leaders and Ausserfern, Tirol. - Market upper village, 1998

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