Schloss Klaus
Austria
Schloss Klaus sits on a rocky spur in the Steyr valley, at the foot of the Brennet, the southernmost outlier of the Kremsmauer range. Stand below it and the reason it exists is obvious: the valley pinches tight here, and whoever held this rock controlled the road through the narrows at Klaus, the route now followed by the Pyhrn railway. Its beginnings reach back to the 12th century, with the first documentary traces in 1175. Today, though, you are not visiting a museum. The buildings house a Protestant youth leisure centre and education house, and the place feels lived in rather than preserved.
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