Altpernstein Castle

Altpernstein Castle
Experience culture, history and castle magic up close at the 1000 year old Altpernstein Castle.
Our castle guide leads you authentically through the old castle walls and knows many stories and interesting facts about the castle and the Krems Valley.
Altpernstein Castle is open to visitors* every Sunday from May to October from 11 am to 4 pm, if you are interested in a castle tour please contact the castle team (contact details below).
Price castle tours: Adults € 10,- | Children up to 14 years € 5,-
 
Events such as castle fairs with morning pint, concerts in the knights' hall à dates on www.burgaltpernstein.at | knights' meals for groups, company celebrations and weddings - many things are possible! Contact us!
 
4563 Micheldorf, Altpernstein 1 | burgaltpernstein@isk-austria.at | www.burgaltpernstein.at
 

Between Kirchdorf and Micheldorf lies the elevated Altpernstein Castle. The ravine between the castle rock and the mountainside - replacing the moat - is spanned by a stone bridge and leads to a two-storey gate building. Above the house stone portal are two openings that belonged to the lift mechanism of the drawbridge. The courtyard is enclosed by the elongated four-storey residential wing with a steeply pitched roof and the tower, which has been almost completely demolished and blocked up. In the courtyard itself is a marble fountain. The west side of the castle was secured by a simple wall with turrets in front. This enclosure has been converted into a viewing terrace.

In the residential wing is the knights' hall and an armoury. However, the porch housing the chapel is of interest, especially because of the still well-preserved, once feared dungeons. The gate wings are iron-clad, only they are not ordinary iron sheets but flattened armour, as can still be seen today. To secure the entrance, two towers were built on the opposite slope; the lower one is a square tower, popularly called the "powder tower", the upper one is a round tower.