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Prunn Castle

Tour of the castle

Access to Prunn Castle is from the north side via the wooden drawbridge resting on three piers across the ditch. Passing through the vaulted gateway hall with its guardroom (now the ticket office), visitors enter the castle courtyard which offers extensive views westwards of the Altmühl valley. The irregular grouping of the living quarters on the east side of the castle courtyard resulted from the need to adapt the castle to the terrain.

The tour of the museum starts in the castle's main living quarters. Via a former store room, visitors first enter the Great Hall where the actual guided tour on the permanent exhibition "Prunn Castle and the Nibelungenlied" begins.

From here, the route leads up the staircase into the living rooms remodelled during Jesuit ownership and through the upper floor of the late-mediaeval residential tower into the castle chapel. Next on the tour are the Knights' Hall and the castle keep dating from the High Middle Ages. The tour ends in the Köckh wing with the women's apartments. A winding staircase takes visitors back down to the castle courtyard.

To see a picture of a particular room, please click on the relevant room number in one of the following lists:

Plan of the second floor

Room 7  Castle owners from the Renaissance to the present day

Room 8  The Nibelungenlied at Prunn

Room 9  A look at the Prunner Codex

Room 10  Prunn at the heart of minnesinger country

Room 11  The reception of the Nibelungenlied

Room 12  Residential tower – literature made real

Room 13  Upper southern staircase hall

Room 14  Castle chapel

Room 15  Upper north staircase hall – paintings from Prunn

Room 16  The hunt

Room 17  Chain mail and belt buckle

Room 18  A matter of rank

Room 19  Treasure hunt

Room 20  Tournament champions

Room 21  Keep

Room 22  Culinary arts and banquets

Room 23  Heroic noble ladies