Kropfsberg Castle Ruin

One of the largest castle ruins stands in the municipality of Reith im Alpbachtal directly on the federal road near St. Gertraudi. It is the only castle with three towers. The advanced keep in the west, the Romanesque stronghold with two keep towers, a circular wall and the residential building (care house), once a gate tower. Kropfsberg was a border fortress of the Salzburg archdiocese. The first buildings were erected around 1147 and the palace was rebuilt around 1217. The first documented mention of the castle dates from 1296.

The nursing home was not built until around 1753. The middle tower was hit by a bomb in 1945 but later rebuilt. Today's owners are the family Dkfm. H. Vogl-Fernheim. The castle, one of the most stately in the whole country, was built around 1200 or even earlier by the Salzburg archbishops to protect their possessions in the Zillertal and was administered by castellans and keepers. The most striking features of the castle are the three mighty towers, originally crenellated and not inhabitable, of which the advanced and specially walled main tower shows particularly careful and regular masonry and the others were later heightened with residential storeys.