Tyrolese Architecture , II 
A ROOM IN CASTLE CAMPAN 
Tyrol, and though sufficiently threatening for 
the narrow Sarnthal, its interiors were too 
meagre and uncomfortable for it to have much 
latter-day importance. Once within the last 
century it was a custom house on the Sarnthal 
road, and after a long idleness it was bought by 
the City of Botzen for an electric plant. Even 
that purpose it has failed to serve and it now 
contains an inn. It is a poor shelter indeed 
where the Tyroler refuses to eat and drink. 
From the Talfer Bridge at the west end of 
Botzen, Schloss Maretsch is visible above 
the dikes of the stream in the foreground. 
Though once fortified it has no longer the 
impregnable appearance of other castles and 
scarcely enough to appropriately house the 
Botzen Militia, a purpose for which it is now 
used. The Castle of Freudenstein stands 
near by on a well cultivated hillside, and also 
the three square towers of Reineck. The 
masonry of the latter castle is of roughest 
rubble of small pieces. Single rows of 
dressed stones surround openings whose 
width is equalled by the depth of reveal. 
The courtyard, bounded by these rough 
materials, is a picture of grim medievalism. 
Overhanging roofs supported by huge brown 
timbers cast gloomv shadows. Inside the 
castle, rudeness has yielded but slightly to 
the needs of livable stuben. The felling of 
trees was easier than the dressing of stone, 
and doubtless on that account all the interior 
finish is of wood. The rude decorations 
which early craftsmen have left upon post, 
wainscoting and ceiling-beam are distinctly 
wood motives not unlike the timber enrich¬ 
ments of the Scandinavians. 
A balcony and stair in the courtyard of 
Schloss Anger near Klausen show the heavy 
parts and ponderous proportions of Tyrolese 
detail. Unstudied and undesigned bv any 
architect these features were probably “ just 
built,” as we say of curious remains here at 
home*whose origins are vague. To untaught 
AT KALTERN, TYROL 
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