An old house with its own property on the outskirts of Barovia Village
Features
- 1st & 2nd floors: everything looks new and clean
- 3rd floor & attic: dusty & drafty, everything is old and draped in cobwebs
- Basement: complex system of dug-out tunnels
- lots of secret passages
Story
- Gustav Durst & Elisabeth Durst were leaders of a cannibalistic cult seeking immortality
- they have had communications with Strahd von Zarovich (see To Gustav Durst)
- the parents told Rosavalda Durst & Thornboldt Durst stories about a monster in the basement, to keep them away from cult activities
- they locked the children in the attic, leaving them to die of starvation
- Gustav had an affair with the nursemaid, resulting in Walter Durst
- Elisabeth murdered the nursemaid and sacrificed Walter, which doomed the cult to an undead life as monsters
- Elisabeth murdered the nursemaid and sacrificed Walter, which doomed the cult to an undead life as monsters