Austria · Still standing
Forchtenstein Castle
Forchtenstein Castle is a Late Medieval hilltop fortress near Forchtenstein in northern Burgenland, Austria, long owned by the Esterházy family. Built around a very tall keep and later fortified and ornamented in the 17th century, it served as a stronghold and a repository for the family's archives and treasures and today remains intact.
Its prime
1670
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1670
The shape it held in its prime.
Perched on a wooded rocky hill above the Wulka valley, the castle presents layered grey-brown masonry curtain walls with angular bastions and embrasures rising from the rock, surmounted by white plastered residential ranges with rows of small windows and steep grey slate roofs. A very tall cylindrical keep (the former 'Black Tower') rises above the complex, its white shaft capped by a red-roofed lookout; a central tower with a dark onion-shaped dome punctuates the roofline. The fortress shows fortified low outer walls and compact inner courtyards.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1670.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Forchtenstein Castle — including 3 interiors: prison pit inside the black tower, secret passage and treasure vault entrance, treasure display room with original cabinets. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Forchtenstein Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1670 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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