Jugendburg Streitwiesen
| Arguing meadows | ||
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 Disputes 2013 |
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Received or received substantial parts | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Place: | Melk | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 18 '50.4 " N , 15 ° 14' 2.4" E | |
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Streitwiesen Castle is a free meeting place for the youth movement . The Höhenburg is located in the Weitental in Lower Austria's Waldviertel near Melk an der Donau.
Youth castle
The castle is owned by the registered association “Federation for the Establishment and Maintenance of an Austrian Youth Castle” based in Vienna. The federal government understands its task as administrator and guardian of the castle. In the ideal sense, the members see themselves as servants of the youth castle concept , which relieves the youth of the tasks of administration, administration, dealing with authorities and fundraising and thus enables them to live and develop freely in the youth castle. The groups come to the Jugendburg to make their contribution. Together over 35 years, a youth castle was created from a ruin abandoned in numerous construction huts, which offers thousands of young people space to develop freely every year. In addition to the constant expansion and maintenance of the castle, the contents of this youthful life are also working, artistic activities, especially in the musical field, and wandering through the Waldviertel.
history
Streitwiesen is the ancestral seat of an Austrian ministerial family and was first mentioned in a document in 1144. A member of the Lord von Stiefern family came into possession of the Veste and from then on called himself Ozo von Streitwiesen after this possession. In the course of history the castle changed hands many times. In 1972 it was bought by a group of leaders of the youth movement and expanded to become the Austrian Youth Castle.
Chronology of the main owners
- 1144– (1396) 1434: Streitwieser - mentioned for the first time in 1144; Streitwiesen is the ancestral seat of an Austrian ministerial family. A member of the Lord von Stiefern family came into possession of the Veste and from then on called himself Ozo von Streitwiesen after this possession. In 1396 the gender in the male tribe died out
- 1434–1443: Fleischess - Austrian noble family; first mentioned in 1277, enfeoffed to Arndorf (1371); extinguished in 1445
- 1443–1546: Scrap - Austrian branch of the Styrian nobility family.
- 1536–1552: Kernparn - peasant family in knighthood, nothing else can be found from this family; In 1560 at the latest, the family of Kernparn died out.
- 1550–1584: Red von Reinprechtspölla - Austrian noble family; resident on armed meadows until around 1580; Builder of all Renaissance objects and the southern outer wall with the round corner towers.
- 1797–1918: Habsburg-Lothringen - In 1797, the Streitwiesen estate and castle pass to the Pöggstall dominion and thus become property of the Habsburg-Lothringen family.
- 1919–1938: After the First World War , the Streitwiesen estate came into the possession of the War Damaged Fund , later placed under the administration of the Austrian Federal Forests , which took possession of it after the War Damaged Fund for the Republic of Austria was dissolved .
- 1938–1945: With the annexation to Germany, the Streitwiesen estate became the property of the German Reich and was placed under the administration of the Reichsforste.
- 1945–1955: With the end of the Second World War , the Streitwiesen estate comes under the administration of the Russian occupation command.
- 1955–1972: After the signing of the Austrian State Treaty, Streitwiesen Castle becomes the property of the Republic of Austria again and is again administered by the Austrian Federal Forests.
1972 until today
Since the acquisition by the federal government for the construction and maintenance of an Austrian youth castle, the castle has been restored and, after more than 150 years of deterioration, has been reopened for meaningful use. In the summer of 1972, eleven former group leaders of the Austrian Boy Scout Association , the Federation for the Establishment and Maintenance of an Austrian Youth Castle, bought the Streitwiesen castle ruins with the intention of creating an independent meeting place for the youth of - especially the confessionally and politically independent associations and confederations - and also to preserve a culturally and historically valuable monument of their homeland and to give it a new, meaningful content.
Shaped by their own experiences in the boy scouting days and the example of Nerotherburg Waldeck in the Hunsrück, they wanted to design a youth castle that would be a home and cultural center for all young people, groups and associations in their homeland and also the large community of like-minded people around the world. The aim was to create a youth castle that gives enough space to escape the taboos and conventions of society and in its place guarantees the free development of young people and their self-chosen community on their own initiative, before their own responsibility and with inner truthfulness .
Karl Turetschek was elected chairman. Under his leadership in the southwestern part of the castle were the nave , the chapel, the southwest tower and later the palace rebuilt and made livable. In the following 25 years, Streitwiesen became an international meeting place for youth groups. Numerous camps and meetings were held. Streitwiesen became known far beyond the borders of Austria in the Bundestag youth.
In 1997 Franz Zimmermann was elected as the new chairman of the federal government for the establishment and maintenance of an Austrian youth castle. Under his leadership, which was keep renovated with an incredible financial expenses. Franz Zimmermann led the federation on a more grassroots basis. Since the federal government had not paid attention to encouraging its own offspring for a long time, it was almost two generations short of those involved. For this reason, more and more older people became involved, who had long outgrown the youth movement and were often completely alienated from it.
In 2005 Stefan Illek was elected as the new chairman. He managed to unite the young generation and at the same time to win the trust of many older people, including that of Franz Zimmermann. This resulted in a complete generation change. The new management team came together mainly through the re-strengthened building works. As in the early years, a construction hut has been established as a permanent facility since 1998. In constant work assignments such as the renovation of the southeast tower in 2007, the building hut is once again lived as the supporting community of the youth castle.
See also
Web links
- Entry on Streitwiesen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry about armed fields in Lower Austria castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
- Entry about armed fields on Burgen-Austria
- Jugendburg Streitwiesen
- Nerother Wandervogel