Location: Schloss Naudersberg Nr. 1, Tyrol Map
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Email: info@schloss-nauders.com
Constructed: 14th century
Naudersberg Castle is a medieval fortress in Tyrol province in Austria that stands on a hill above the village Nauders.
The royal court castle was built at the beginning of the 14th
century and was first mentioned in 1325. Until 1919 the castle was
the seat of state authorities such as B. District Court.
The
oldest part of the castle with a rectangular floor plan consists of
the south-eastern palas and a square keep in the west. In the
southern ring wall is the round-arched castle gate with iron-bound
gate leaves from the 14th century, above it a manhole from the 16th
century. In the late Middle Ages, the ring wall and the Palas were
raised with a cloak wall and loopholes. The originally wide
courtyard was built with building wings (with pitched roofs), so
that only a small central courtyard remained. A Zwinger wall running
parallel to the main castle with double rows of key and slits and
two round towers was built in the second half of the 15th century.
The Zwingertor consists of a chamfered arched portal with iron-clad
wings and a pedestrian gate. In the second quarter of the 16th
century, a wide outer bailey with a bastion tower was built in the
south.
The keep under a (recent) gabled roof has six floors.
The upper floors were built at the beginning of the 16th century.
There, under the weir plate, there are two heatable, paneled
detention rooms with iron doors, peephole and box lock from the 16th
century. The three-storey palas under a pent roof has battlements
walled up to the east and isolated original light slits. The regular
rows of windows are from the 16th century. On the ground floor there
is a medieval beamed ceiling on a chamfered wooden pillar. On the
second floor is a prince's room with late Gothic panelling, which
was covered with Empire paintings from 1806 to 1809. On the second
floor is the former courtroom with a rough, richly profiled field
ceiling from the end of the 15th century. The other rooms have
simple 16th and 17th century moldings and paneled ceilings.
On the second floor is the rib vaulted chapel, which was later built
into a corridor. The entrance to the chapel, a round arch portal,
was built around 1800. A bell from 1465 hangs in the bell tower.
The castle is privately owned and has been continuously
renovated since 1980. Much of the interior is now used as a museum.
There are also two holiday apartments in the Palas. A restaurant has
been established in the area of the inner castle gate.