Burg Hasegg
Austria
Before there was a castle here, there was a fear of fire. In the saltworks of Hall, brine drawn from the Halltal was boiled down to salt in four great pans, and that meant burning enormous quantities of wood. So in the 13th century a watchtower went up at the south-west corner of the saltworks, recorded in 1296 as turris in salina, the tower by the saltworks. The name you see on the signs, Hasegg, comes from that corner: Haus am Eck, the house on the corner. The castle itself is first mentioned in 1306, a projecting corner of the town walls that guarded the boiling works, the river traffic, the crossing of the Inn and the old Roman road.
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