House & Garden 
TYROLESE ARCHITECTURE. 
III. FEUDAL. 
P ersonal details in the lives of the Haps- 
burgs are set forth on a gaunt family tree 
in the Castle of Tratzberg. A solemn pro¬ 
cession of stately Leopolds, Albrechts, and 
Elizabeths innumerable, covers the walls of 
an entire room. Each branch of the family 
is a group by itself, and under its armorial 
shields, deeds good or ill are lettered on a 
scroll in old German words and characters. 
A stag, shot on the mountainside, tells of a 
favorite Tyrolese sport as much loved to-day 
as it was, centuries ago, when the castle 
knights refused to rise at the sound ot the 
chapel bell, but were ever ready to spring at 
the blast of the jagers horn. Tradition has 
it that an impious warrior, when yawning at 
the call to mass, and covering his head with 
the bedclothes, was frightened by the crash¬ 
ing of the castle’s foundation and the tremb¬ 
ling and shaking of the walls. Casements 
were shattered in their frames ; and sharp 
echoes they must have waked, lor as many 
windows as the year has days, has been a 
boast of Tratzberg. The reluctant knight 
was called to the homage the bell enjoined, 
and the castle folk, who rushed into his 
room and found his corpse, saw another 
vision for their fireside myths. 
The building of the Castle of Tratzberg 
in the XI1 Century has been ascribed to one 
of the powerful Rothenburgs. T hree hun¬ 
dred years later, its master was Christian 
Tanzel, a prosperous proprietor of the neigh¬ 
boring mines. He was ambitious to bear the 
proud title of the “ Knight of Tratzberg,” 
and its bestowal upon him meant good for¬ 
tune for the castle. No means were spared 
in beautifying the building with paintings and 
marbles, and in making it a wonder ol the 
THE COURTYARD OF SCHLOSS TRATZBERG NEAR JENBACH, TYROL 
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