Schloss Pragstein Castle

The Mauthausen Castle Pragstein Local History and Museum Association is dedicated to researching, documenting and communicating the thousand-year-old history of Mauthausen. The results are presented to visitors in a vivid form in the local history museum. The development of rural pharmacies is comprehensively presented in the pharmacy museum. This specialised museum is unique in its form and scope throughout Austria.

One of the oldest villages in Upper Austria was also home to one of the few fortifications built directly in the Danube in Austria. As late as 1860, a few years before the major regulation of the Danube, ...