Wagrain Castle

Wagrain Castle is located on the northern edge of Ebbs, about 6 km northeast of Kufstein in Tyrol (Austria).

The castle was first mentioned in 1421 as the seat of the Lords of Ebbs, but it is presumed that it was already built in the 14th century as a three-story residential tower. The Lords of Ebbs served as judges for the Bavarian dukes, provided Johann Ebser as Bishop of Chiemsee from 1429 to 1438, and died out in 1494 with Ludwig Ebser.

Twenty years earlier, they had sold Wagrain to Friedrich Reichertzhaimer, who was related to them by marriage and came from Schönstett near Wasserburg. When Georg Reichertzhaimer died around 1544, Wagrain Castle passed through the Baumgartner siblings to Balthasar von Helmsdorff in 1553. He sold the manor to Hans Dreyling in 1573.

In 1971, Richard Stadler from Munich acquired the castle and had it restored until about 1990. The Fohlenhof, Europe's largest Haflinger stud farm, is housed in the former outbuildings, which no longer belong to the castle today.