Ruine Krems
Austria
The first thing you notice, long before you arrive, is the keep. Burg Krems sits east of Voitsberg in Styria, on a spur of high ground pushed out towards the Kainach, and its five-storey Bergfried rises from a block of bare rock so that it shows from far around. The spur drops steeply to the east, south and west. To the north, where it might have joined easier ground, a ditch was cut to isolate it, and the remains of a later bridge still cross that ditch. Since the Kainach valley road was built, a deep cutting has severed the ridge from its hinterland altogether, so the ruin now feels even more like an island than its builders intended.
- Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Burg Krems (de.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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