Große Hornburg
Austria
The name tells you where you are before the stones do. Hornburg refers to a horn, meaning the rocky summit of the Hornberg, which rises to roughly 900 metres on the western flank of the Saualpe in Carinthia, between Eberstein and Klein St. Paul. What survives up here is not one castle but two: a medieval twin castle of upper and lower Hornburg, Hoch- and Niederhornburg, now protected as a listed monument. Both belong to the type known as summit castles, built to sit on the very top of the height rather than on a spur below it.
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