Schloss Krippach, Heritage manor house in Absam, Austria

Schloss Krippach is a three-story manor house in Absam featuring a western tower topped with a baroque bulbous dome and seven evenly spaced window axes. The property sits within gardens that include a baroque pavilion and protective stone walls.

Hans Kripp, a duke's counselor and kitchen master, received this estate in 1454 from Cardinal Peter of Augsburg as a grant. Major earthquakes struck between 1670 and 1689, prompting a significant reconstruction in 1709 that kept most of its original character.

The castle chapel occupies the upper floor of the west tower; in the 19th century it was vaulted and furnished in a neo-Gothic style. Its altar wings were painted by Franz Hellweger (1812–1880), while the altar itself and a carved Madonna come from the sculptor Josef Miller. The Kripp family still maintains the Salvatorkirche in Hall, founded in 1403 by Hans Kripp's father.

Schloss Krippach stands at Stainerstraße 4 and 4a in Absam, a short distance from Hall in Tirol. The building is privately owned by the Kripp family and is not open as a public museum, so the interior and chapel can only be seen by arrangement. The park, garden wall and baroque garden pavilion are visible from outside.

In 1701, while cannons were fired next to the castle, the residence collapsed and the 77-year-old owner Adam Franz von Kripp was killed. Josef Dominik Kripp rebuilt it in 1709/10; the square east main tower was left out because fortification was no longer needed.