Burg Freundsberg

The Freundsberg Castle is a castle on the southern outskirts of Schwaz in Tyrol. The castle is located on a steep, highly visible hill, about 170 m above the valley of the Inn Valley. Construction was founded in 1150 by the Lords of Freundsberg. First, the system consisted merely of a five -story residential tower, which is preserved to this day and in the still parts of the original frescoes can be seen. The first chapel was consecrated in 1177. 1467 sold to the castle to Archduke Sigismund the Wealthy, who rebuilt in the following years and her time as the name Sigmundsruh, according to another source Siegmund Fried gave.

From 1634 to 1637 a castle church was built in the style of the late Renaissance. After further changing owners, the system is since 1812 owned by the town of Schwaz, which began in 1966 with the Restoration.

The first museum of the city of Schwaz was opened in the Innsbruckerstraße 1930. Since 1948, the keep serves as a museum, in which the development of the town of Schwaz and the silver mining industry, which was operated in its environment, is documented.