Hall of the Knights
Hall of the Knights
The room, known as the Knights' Hall, has been restored to its early 16th century appearance. The room was named after the restoration. It has been assumed that in the Middle Ages, knights were appointed as chiefs of the castle and that the room was used as the chief's living quarters.
The present room originally consisted of a small hallway and a larger cross-vaulted room. The location of the wall is marked on the present floor by a wall bricks.
The hall was heated by a furnace, which directed the heat from the fireplace under the brick floor. Therefore there was a floor heating in this Hall. The oven was replaced in the 1560s by a modern tiled oven.
Opposite the door to the loft is a doorway that led up a wooden bridge to the castle´s storage tower. It was used to store valuables such as candlesticks, copper pots, tapestries and other textiles. Textiles were also made in this tower and weawers and spinners worked there. The governess of the storage tower was the highest ranking woman, who worked in the castle.
The tower was demolished to make way for the present perimeter wall building in the 1700s at the latest. When the castle was a prison in the early 1900s, this room was a dormitory for men.