Italy · Restored
Trauttmansdorff Castle
Trauttmansdorff Castle is a multi-period castle and estate south of Merano in South Tyrol, Italy, now home to a museum of tourism and noted botanical gardens. The present building combines elements from medieval, Renaissance and 19th-century work and sits on a wooded hillside above terraced gardens.
Its prime
1846
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1846
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact, multi-wing castle with pale yellow rendered façades: a rectangular crenellated towered block to the left, a taller central block with a stepped gable and paired round-arched windows, and a lower right wing with regular rows of rectangular windows. Low red-tiled roofs and a crenelated parapet punctuate the roofline. The building stands on a wooded hillside above terraced botanical gardens and lawns, with distant mountain peaks on the horizon; at its prime the exterior is whole and freshly rendered.
Its story
The story of Trauttmansdorff Castle.
Trauttmansdorff Castle, south of Merano in South Tyrol, has belonged to the Trauttmansdorff family for roughly 500 years — the property was bought in the early 1500s by Nikolaus von Trauttmansdorff, and from 1543 the castle and gardens were owned by the family, one of the oldest and most distinguished Austrian noble houses. Its construction spans the periods before the 1300s, the 1500s and the 1800s.
The family abandoned the castle in the early 1700s, then bought it back in a state of near-disrepair, 'half-ruined'; Count Josef von Trauttmansdorff renovated and enlarged the building in 1846, giving it its current form. Today the castle serves as a tourist site, home to a museum of tourism, with noted botanical gardens terraced below its wooded hillside.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1846.
The record describes 7 distinct spots at Trauttmansdorff Castle — including 3 interiors: interior hall with baroque ceiling mural, imperial rooms with mixed romanesque/gothic windows, touriseum exhibition room. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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Clans who held Trauttmansdorff Castle.
The families that held Trauttmansdorff Castle for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Trauttmansdorff
Held by the Trauttmansdorff family for roughly 500 years, from Nikolaus von Trauttmansdorff's purchase in the early 1500s.
