Schallaburg

The approach tells you the castle's story in the order it was built for. Before you reach the moat you pass through the Jägerstöckl, a two-storey gatehouse with round-arched gateways set in rusticated frames on both sides. Cross the moat and a second gatehouse, the Försterstöckl, stands across your path. Its showpiece portal carries the date 1573, and above the passage sits the coat of arms of Losenstein and Rogendorf in a cartouche with an angel figure, dated 1598. A third, smaller gate building, painted with cornice bands and cushion-stone rustication, leads you from the forecourt into the great courtyard. These gates, along with the tall tower and the buildings called the Neues Schloss and Gerichtsstöckl, form an irregular pentagon on the south side, built for defence in the age of firearms.

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