The remains of the Castle can be visited
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Hasensprung Castle (Ruin) (Pratval)
The ruin of Hasensprung Castle is located in the municipality of Pratval in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
The ruin of Hasensprung Castle is situated on a small hill on the western edge of the village of Pratval. From the south, the castle was protected by a moat.
The remains of the former Hasensprung Castle are heavily overgrown and covered with rubble; the original structural connections are barely recognizable. Only the northeastern corner of the tower remains. Notable are the precisely layered masonry and the large corner bosses with chamfered edges. The mask sculpture, which Clavadetscher still recognized in the early 1980s, is no longer visible.
Written documents about the castle's origin and history are missing, but the tower was probably built in the 13th century. Hasensprung is mentioned in a land register around 1370: ager dictus air de Plan contingit versus Rautels (=Rodels) colli de Hasensprung.
Possible owners are the Barons of Vaz, from whom the castle passed to the Werdenbergers and was destroyed in the Schams Feud in 1356.
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