Burg Laudegg is a restored castle ruin near the three villages of

Ladis Ladis is a municipality in the district of Landeck (district) in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 9.5 km south of Landeck and 1.4 km west of Faggen. The village is known because of its sulphur Sulfur (or sulphur in British Engli ...

Serfaus Serfaus is a municipality in the district of Landeck in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is well known as part of the ski-region "Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis", which was formed when Serfaus teamed up with the two nearby municipalities of Fiss and Ladis in 19 ...

, and

Fiss Fiss is a municipality in the Landeck district in the Austrian state of Tyrol located south of Landeck Landeck () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the capital of the district of Landeck. Geography Landeck is located in the Tyrolean Ob ...

, Bezirk Landeck, in the state of Tyrol, Austria. Across the Oberinntal valley lies Castle Berneck at Kauns.

Location

Laudegg Castle stands at the foot of the

Samnaun Alps The Samnaun Alps are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps, named after the Swiss municipality of Samnaun. They are located at the border of the Austrian state of Tyrol and the Graubünden canton of Switzerland. The Samnaun Alps are separ ...

and sits on vertical protrusion of slate above Oberinntal valley at an elevation of above sea level. Ladis Friedhof P6A7490

History

The tower house was built in the Early middle ages and is first documented in 1239. However, a local Ministerialeship of "Laudeck" (an earlier form of Laudegg) is documented even earlier (1232) in the court diary of Duke Otto von Andechs in

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

.Ladis
in the database ''Geschichte Tirol'' of the association ''fontes historiae – Quellen der Geschichte'' (German) In 1406 Oberinntal became involved in the Appenzell peasant uprising under

Ital Reding the Elder Ital Reding the Elder (also ''Itelhans'', c. 1370–1447) was Landammann of Schwyz (during 1411–1428 and 1432–1445) and the leader of the forces of Schwyz during the Old Zürich War (1440–1450). He is depicted in historiography as ...

. Ladis was razed to the ground, the castle and Steinegg Castle (above Tullenfeld on the way up to Pontlatzbrücke), which was serving as its

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was also destroyed. In the following years, only the most necessary repairs were carried out, firstly under

Maximilian I Maximilian I may refer to: *Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, reigned 1486/93–1519 *Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, reigned 1597–1651 *Maximilian I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1636-1689) *Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, reigned 1795� ...

, who was interested in the region, the castle was expanded somewhat, but the promised funds were not sent. Though the castle was the administrative centre of

Oberes Gericht Oberes Gericht is an area in the southwest of Austria and one of 36 microregions of the federal state of Tirol. The area located in the Landeck District reaches from Pontlatzbrücke to Finstermünzpass. It borders Switzerland in the southwest ...

valley (''Laudeck Court'') until the seventeenth century, it is documented in 1551 that the Keeper of Laudegg resided in

Schloss Siegmundsried ''Schloss'' (; pl. ''Schlösser''), formerly written ''Schloß'', is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house. Related terms appear in several Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the cognate ...

(built 1471) and the castle was no longer used as a camp or weapons store. In the seventeenth century it was renovated, but the building remained empty and fell into ruin for good after the administrative centre moved to

Ried im Oberinntal Ried im Oberinntal is a municipality in the district of Landeck in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 12 km south of the city of Landeck Landeck () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the capital of the district of Landeck. Geograp ...

. Partial restorations began in 1964.
Geschichte und Chronik von Ladis
'', ladis.tirol.gv.at, accessed 10 May 2012 (German) Today the castle is on private property, but is open for visiting once a week in the months of July and August.

Trivia

*Castle Laudegg lies on the side of an ancient

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. *During visiting months, tickets are 2 Euros for Adults.

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