Burgruine Heunburg
Austria
You come at the Heunburg from the plain, and the rock does most of the talking. The ruin sits on an isolated outcrop, a block of slate, at the point where the Diexer Bach swings down into the open Jauntal, in the village of Haimburg within the municipality of Völkermarkt in Carinthia. The two names you will see, Heunburg and Haimburg, refer to the same place, and the oldest written form, Huneburch, is the root of both. Standing below it, you understand the choice of site at once. This is a crag that watches a valley, not a hilltop chosen for the view.
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