Bertholdstein
The Benedictine nuns, who filled these vast walls with their song, have disappeared. A place of enchantment and an ideal place to film Kafka's 'castle'. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the castle was the scene of glittering banquets given by Pasha Sefir, who was excluded from the line of succession, and who enlarged the castle with several characteristic annexes. Following the demise of the Danube Monarchy, Benedictine nuns of the higher nobility came here from Prague.
I became acquainted with the prioress by a chance coincidence, and we remained friends over many years. Bertholdstein: my place of retreat for quiet study, somewhere I have lost.