Schnaditz Fortress is 800 years old, and it could be yours for the price of a coffee — one euro, to be exact. The castle comes with two towers, a knights’ hall, and 1,012 square metres of floor space. There is, of course, a catch: the new owner has to restore the whole place at their own expense. And when it comes to a listed historic building, the authorities get a say in how that restoration is done — and the bill can run far higher than the purchase price. It is the same story as the famous one-euro houses in Italy, where buyers have found that bringing a historic property up to standard can cost a million euros or more. So the castle really is one euro — the restoration is the part that costs a fortune.
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