castles of south tirol

the weather was quite bad, so instead of hiking i've spend a lot of time visiting different castles in northern south tirol (brixen area). my craziest experience? they've locked me in the castle trostburg for half an hour or more ... hahaha, i've been there much earlier before they've opened for tourists and didn't see anyone at the gate and thus just walked in ... later it was closed, so i just talked to the castle ghosts and waited for the first tourist excursion of the day to come out 😂

castle engelsburg in neustift abbey, in vahrn (varna) - brixen, ITA

here we go, the castles i've visited in südtirol (italien) this time:

• engelsburg (arts gallery) at kloster neustift (neustift abbey)
  
• ruin mühlbacher klause at mühlbach, rienz river, pustertal
• ruin salern castle in salern over the city/village of vahrn (here i have been twice. alone + with my wife to enjoy the view over 'our' eisack river valley)
  
• ruin wallburg nössing (bronze age) next to neustift abbey
  
• rodenegg in vill (private, partly open as museum)
  
• trostburg in waidbruck (museum)
• city of brixen (bressassone) - yep, there are castles too (hofburg, campan)
  
• ehrenburg (private, closed for public)

 flowers 🌸

 kloster neustift, neustift abbey, vahrn (varna) - brixen, ITA

hypnosis seminar by the best of all wives 😍

engelsburg as seen from our hotel room in the neustift monstery

walking at eisack river

hotel brückenwirt = our favorite restaurant + beer garden in neustift

castle mühlbacher klause in pustertal valley

dolomiti as seen during my mini hiking tour in spiluck

 

wallburg nössing in neustift

 

eisack river valley (neustift + brixen)

lake flötscher weiher in schabs-natz 

maria himmelfahrt in vill at castle rodenegg

what a nice hotel (rodeneggerer hof) in vill

rodenegg castle

quite a good address, isn't it`? 😄

count of wolkenstein (graf von wolkenstein), family grave

... and a beautiful nature too

trostburg castle (waidbruck)

good-bye, castle trostburg

...

 

ruin salern castle

eisack river valley + vahrn + brixen

city of brixen (bressassone)

ehrenburg castle (private) in ehrenburg +

+ the adjacent pilgrimage church (wahlfahrt zur kornmutter) in ehrenburg in pustertal valley

 

ehrenburg castle

drei zinnen (3 zinnen, dolomiti, sextner dolomiten) in sexten as seen from kreuzbergpass 1636 m =>

=> good-bye, south tirol and hello veneto, italia

more pictures here.

our last year's visit in neustift here.