Burg Arnholz
Austria
The first thing to understand about Burg Arnholz is that it does not look like a ruin, because it is not one in the usual sense. It is the built-over remains of a hilltop castle at Schöfens, in the municipality of Matrei am Brenner, in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol. What survives has been absorbed into a house that kept growing for centuries. The original core was a single rectangular tower, a 'fixed house', and it is still there inside the eastern part of the building. If you could put your hand on those old walls you would be touching masonry 1.9 metres thick, a reminder that this began as a defensive building before it became a home.
- Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Burg Arnholz (de.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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