Schauenberg Ruins

Saturday, March 29, 2008

We decided to try to hunt down another castle ruin today, and picked one outside of Pratteln called Schauenberg. We managed to find it, but it was closed! Apparently some of the ruins are actually falling down enough that the public can't be trusted around them. There was a little sign that said "Achtung, Steinschlag" and something else that we figured probably meant that it was closed (must remember to bring along our German dictionary!). We followed the trail around to the other side, and found an old wrought iron gate firmly locked.



I took a photo through the gate, but you couldn't see much. We were wondering about the little house that seemed to be built amongst the ruins. On the map it looked like there was another possible ruin, so we decided to head up that way. and up...and up...we ended up at the top of a big cliff, with a great birds-eye view of the ruin we had just visited. We decided that the 'little house' amongst the castle ruins was possibly a watch post or something like that, but haven't been able to find any further information about it. From there we continued back down and around to Munchenstein and hopped on a tram home.