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View of Kufstein Fortress

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1. View of Kufstein Fortress – Kufstein Fortress loop from Wörgl Hauptbahnhof

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2. View of Kufstein Fortress – View of the Wilder Kaiser loop from Kufstein

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3. Kufstein Fortress – View of Kufstein Fortress loop from Oberaudorf

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Ulysses

April 28, 2022

Right next door is a fountain with a small bench where you can fill up your water bottles. Sometimes more, sometimes less water, depending on the rainfall in the past few days.

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Reparl

November 10, 2019

... in the fortification you can see well the roofed fortress arena, in the u. A. also open-air events take place ...

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MaDDinn T.

August 24, 2020

Kufstein Fortress (erroneously also called Geroldseck Fortress) is the landmark of the town of Kufstein and is one of the most impressive medieval buildings in Tyrol.

It is located on the Festungsberg above the town of Kufstein on a 90 m high cliff directly on the Inn and can be reached on foot or with the Kaiser Maximilian Panoramabahn.

The fortress was first mentioned in a document in 1205 as "Castrum Caofstein". At that time it was owned by the bishops of Regensburg.

From 1415 Duke Ludwig the Beard strengthened the fortifications.

In the course of the Landshut War of Succession in 1504, the later Emperor Maximilian I besieged and conquered the city and fortress of Kufstein. He had the complex renovated and expanded into a fortress.

In 1703, Bavarian troops invaded Tyrol and also conquered Kufstein Fortress, but had to vacate it the following year after the Tyrolean peasants rose against the Bavarian occupation. In the 18th century there was a fortress bridge in Kufstein. As a result of the Peace of Pressburg, the fortress came under Bavarian rule again in 1805, together with the whole of Tyrol, before it fell back to Austria in 1814.

During the Austrian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, the fortress served as a prison for numerous Hungarian dissidents, including Ferenc Kazinczy (1799-1800), Gregor Czuczor (1850-1851) and Sándor Rózsa (1859-1865).

The fortress has been owned by the city of Kufstein since 1924, which has leased the fortress to "Top City Kufstein GmbH" since 1996. After criticism of the articles of association by the Austrian Court of Auditors, it was changed in 2019 and since then the company has been called "Festung Kufstein GmbH".[1]

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festung_Kufstein

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Location: Tyrol, Austria

View of Kufstein Fortress

1. View of Kufstein Fortress – Kufstein Fortress loop from Wörgl Hauptbahnhof

2. View of Kufstein Fortress – View of the Wilder Kaiser loop from Kufstein

3. Kufstein Fortress – View of Kufstein Fortress loop from Oberaudorf

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