Residential Tower
While a castle’s keep primarily served defence and representative purposes, a residential tower combined both residential and defence functions. It represented the smallest possible form of a castle.
In future, the tower is also intended to be enclosed by a curtain wall.
The lower two storeys of the tower display hand-hewn ashlar masonry, which corresponds in its construction to the building techniques of the 12th century.
The upper storeys are built with less finely worked stones and reflect the masonry style that was common in eastern Austria during the 13th century. The joints between the stones are filled with lime mortar, which was smoothed with a trowel. This exposed-stone plaster is typical of Romanesque masonry and is known as Pietra Rasa.
