Luxembourg’s Beaufort Castle and its torture chambers

Beaufort Castle ruins, Luxembourg

This castle, like Vianden, was also built on the site of a Roman fort – Castellum Belforti.  The oldest part of the ruins of the Castle date to the 12th century when it was built by Count van Beaufort.  In 1639 the Castle landed in the hands of the Austrian Field Marshall, Johann von Beck, who restored the Castle in the Renaissance Style.

Exploring Beaufort Castle ruins in Luxembourg

Over the next hundred years the castle changed hands a few more times and eventually was abandoned and landed in a state of disrepair.  It was even used as a quarry in the early 1800s but obtained a new owner by the 1890s who started restoration. It was opened to visitors in 1928 and acquired by the Luxembourg State in 1981.

Today the ruins are in the process of being restored.  Visitors can visit this castle as well as the dungeons below which display various methods of Medieval torture.

Beaufort Castle’s torture chambers