Schloss Schmida
Austria
Schloss Schmida does not announce itself from a hilltop. It sits low, in a hollow on the south-western edge of the village near the bank of the Stranzendorfer Bach, and from outside it reads less like a palace than a very large four-sided farmstead, its trapezoid plan closed in by hipped roofs and Baroque chimneys. That modesty is part of its story. This was a moated house built on marshy ground, and the rebuilding of 1548, attributed to the state fortress architect Francesco de Pozzo, stood on timber piles because the soil would not carry it otherwise.
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