Tratzberg Castle

Tratzberg Castle is a fort in Jenbach, Tyrol, Austria. Tratzberg Castle is positioned on a steep ridge above Jenbach within the Austrian a part of Tyrol. It is an amazing example of palace structure regular for the alpine components of the Holy Roman Empire all through the past due Gothic and early Renaissance duration. The fort become built in its gift form in 1500 typically via the brothers Veit-Jakob and Simon Tanzl. Today Tratzberg Castle is owned and inhabited by means of Count Ulrich Goëss-Enzenberg and his wife Katrin Goëss-Enzenberg. Tratzberg is likewise one of the pleasant preserved castles in Austria, having lots of its authentic fixtures and fittings.

In 1296, chronicles point out a fortress called Trazperch standing at this area. It changed into destroyed with the aid of hearth in 1490 to 91. Emperor Maximilian I left the spoil to the brothers Veit-Jakob and Simon Tanzl in alternate for Berneck Castle in Kaunertal in 1499. The Brothers Tänzel wherein commoners that came to money as element owners of the silver mine in Schwaz, and raised into the Aristocracy in 1502. Within 8 years, beginning in 1500 a 3-storey four-wing complicated with courtyard and stair tower, portals and arcades, columns, window sills and fireplaces in Hagauer marble was constructed.