Experiencing history

Special tours are available for school classes and children's/youth groups as part of the educational museum program to give children and youths more insight into life in the Middle Ages.

1. Hohenwerfen Fortress

School classes are introduced to everything there is to see at the fortress. The program includes a tour of the fortress with its dungeon, torture chamber, armory and the magnificent state rooms, an impressive flight demonstration by birds of prey, a birds of prey nature trail and the 1st Austrian Falconry Museum.

Length	approx. 2 1/2 hours
Age group	from 6 years
Price	€ 5.50

2. "Up to here and no further"

(Special educational tour)
A guided tour for students, focusing on Hohenwerfen Fortress' function as a stronghold. The title is taken from the "vita conradi", the biography of Archbishop Konrad I (1106-1147). This tour particularly emphasizes Hohenwerfen's function as a military defense. The tour is rounded off by a jousting tournament.

Management:
Castle administration's educational museum staff

Length	approx. 2 hours
Age group	from 6 years
Price	€ 5.80
Optional birds of prey flight demonstration
Total length	approx. 3 hours
Total price	€ 7.00

Information and registration

2 accompanying persons admitted free.
Other accompanying persons pay the children's rate.

Hours of admission: April to the end of October

Registration
Erlebnisburg Hohenwerfen Peter Meikl 5450 Werfen Tel.: ++43(0)6468/7603 Fax: ++43(0)6468/7603-4 e-mail: erlebnisburg.hohenwerfen@salzburg.at

Educational museum program

Special guided tours for school classes, kids and youth groups:

1. Hohenwerfen Fortress
2. Up to here and no further
3. Are you familiar with our falcons, eagles
and vultures?

Folder educational museum program

Educational museum program (PDF),
German only