'Tyrolese Architecture 
SCHLOSS ENN 
“Fugger Room,” whose ceiling is of 
unwrought beams, but whose walls are 
wainscotted to a third of their height; and 
against the plaster above huge dim portraits 
stand out in sharp contrast. The “ Hapsburg 
Room ” has the ugly ceiling which usually 
results where the Tyrolese abandoned plain 
wide planks in their woodwork, and aimed 
at an outward show by intricate and awkward 
paneling in which narrow beaded boards, 
thoroughly commonplace, are used. 
Schloss Thumburg overlooks the Eisak at 
that part of the river’s course which has made 
the neighboring town of Sterzingof great stra¬ 
tegic importance, and has given it renown in 
Tyrolese annalsfor theconflictswhichoccurred 
there between Austrians, French and Bava¬ 
rians. Though upon the southern slope of 
the mountain divide, the castle is thoroughly 
northern in its character; but like the pictur¬ 
esque chateau, photographed by the writer in 
the Pusterthal, neither in size nor in formida¬ 
ble appearance does it pass far beyond the 
minor domestic buildings. Reifenstein stands 
near by, and is larger and much more interest¬ 
ing. Old chronicles relate a melancholy his¬ 
tory of its jealous master who, envious of his 
neighbor’s beautiful chatelaine and discover¬ 
ing the happy couple sitting under the horn¬ 
beam in their garden, drew his arquebuse and 
killed the innocent lord. The devil, it is 
said, strangled Reifenstein for the crime and 
banished his spirit to the mountains, where 
with sudden storms and forest fires, he still 
mystifies the credulous peasantry. The gloom 
of the legend seems to linger in the castle. 
'The exterior is without ornament,—bald and 
shadowless. Inside, the use of wood admin¬ 
istered to the scanty comfort that a rough 
age needed. Plain wainscots of pine, lining 
entire rooms, mitigated the chill damps that 
were felt in the repose that followed the rush 
to arms, the clattering of mailed feet over 
wooden galleries and the confusion of attack. 
