Spitz

 Arrived around midday, only staying for 1 night so we walked to town, saw a ruin on the hill on thought let's have a look at that. Thank goodness this village had a Nextbike rental station. The following are photos of the town and ruins.

War memorial – If you are interested the plaque on the front translates says 

“The homeland honors it’s heroes”

You can see the ruins on the background in this photo, thank goodness for the bikes.

Had to leave the bike and walk the last bit.

Made it, and there is a seat in the shade at the front of the ruins, time to rest.

In this photo you can see Spitz, the Danube with a cruise ship turning to park, this one a Bike Cruises, it stops a lot to drop off or pick up passengers, not sure how long they stay, it is arriving at 2:26pm. Further back in the background you will see a bend in the river, we are parked in the marina around that bend.

Now to enter the Hinterhaus ruins through the main entrance into the Bury, first mentions in 1243. The castle complex is divided into 3 separate parts: the lower outer bailey, the main castle, which takes up most of the rocky ridge, and the outer bailey. The shape is rectangle 75m long and 20m wide

The cruise ship is leaving at 2:33pm, less then 10 minutes, they done stay long, too bad if you wanted to get back on at this stop and you couldn't make it.

Ruine Hinterhaus

I Outer Bailey

II North-East Bailey

III Gate Tower Palace

IV Palace

V Main Castle

VI Berchfrit (there is no translation for this word, in general term means “a non-residential main tower”

VII Southwest Bailey

 

1. Main entrance into the Bury

2 + 3 round corner towers

4. stable, attic with bedrooms for the servants

5. Stairs to the inner courtyard

6. Basement rooms

7. Inner courtyard

8. Low gear or lower floors

9. Flat arches - access to the

10. cistern

11. Exit or escape gates in the kennel

12. Southwest Gate to the main castle

13. Living space

14. Sally gate with pitchwife (a Sally gate is a minor gate or passage, used to avoid opening major gates and a Pitchwife or Pitchfork can be a bay window in a defensive wall, through the bottom opening of which hot oil was poured on attackers)

15. South Corner Tower

16. North corner Tower

I love this stuff, but why do they always have them on top of a hill.

Now we have to climb down