Top 8 Castles around Auffach

Together with the castle park, it forms an impressive ensemble.

A stately castle and estate where you can stay in style, eat fine food, and take a leisurely stroll through the park.

A very nice park, especially for children and older people, as there's hardly any incline. There's even a playground for children surrounded by beautiful trees. You can also eat or just have a drink there. Unfortunately, we didn't have time because we had to catch the train, but the atmosphere is wonderful.

Warm to watch great

One of the largest castle ruins is located in the municipality of Reith im Alpbachtal, directly on the national road near St. Gertraudi. It is the only castle with three towers. The advanced keep in the west, the Romanesque fortress with two keep towers, a round wall and the residential building (care home), once a gate tower. Kropfsberg was a border fortress of the Archdiocese of Salzburg. The first buildings were erected around 1147 and the palace was rebuilt around 1217. The first documented mention of the castle dates back to 1296. The nursing home was only built around 1753. The middle tower was hit by a bomb in 1945, but later rebuilt. The current owners are the Dkfm family. H. Vogl-Fernheim. The castle, one of the most stately in the entire country, was built around 1200 or even earlier by the archbishops of Salzburg to protect their possessions in the Zillertal and was managed by castellans and keepers. The most striking features of the castle are its three mighty towers, originally crenellated and not habitable, of which the sophisticated and specially walled main tower shows particularly careful and regular stonework and the others were later raised with residential floors.

Here you can cycle in a relaxed manner

A beautiful castle that we had a lovely walk to.

Schloss Matzen, also known as Burg Matzen, is located on a low promontory in the Tyrolean municipality of Reith im Alpbachtal. The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1278. It was founded by the ducal Bavarian ministeriales Freundsberg and remained in the family's possession until 1468. After that, the owners changed quickly, but from 1734 to 1873 under Pfeiffersberg the castle began to fall into disrepair after a fire. In 1873, the Irish Fanny Reade from Mount Heaton-Grohmann bought the castle. Her son, William Adolf Baillie Grohman in particular, discovered his love for South Tyrol. During the Second World War, the castle served as a storage facility for exhibits from the Ferdinandeum State Museum and the Tyrolean State Library. In 1957, the castle was sold again, this time by Michael Baillie Grohman to the American architect Ernest J. Kump. In 2007, there was another change of ownership, the building was sold to a German investor and, after a two-and-a-half-year conversion phase, it was renovated and converted into a high-quality hotel complex for around 10 million euros. The farmyard directly next to the castle dates from the first half of the 16th century and is now the Matzen Inn. It is also a listed building. The English-style landscape garden from the 19th century was created from a marshy Innauer forest. The 15-hectare park includes areas in the municipalities of Brixlegg and Reith im Alpbachtal, with the eastern part of the municipality of Brixlegg being protected as a natural monument in 1961 and the western part of the municipality of Reith in 1972. Due to changes in the municipal boundaries, most of the facility now belongs to Reith, with the exception of a small plot. The park is one of the most important garden architecture monuments in Austria. It includes four artificial ponds, wide lawns and around 40 different species of trees.