Wildberg Castle (knives)

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Wildberg Castle
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Place: Irnfritz knives
Geographical location 48 ° 42 ′ 58.5 "  N , 15 ° 31 ′ 40.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 58.5 "  N , 15 ° 31 ′ 40.5"  E
Height: 488  m above sea level A.
Wildberg Castle (Lower Austria)
Wildberg Castle

Wildberg Castle , formerly also Wildberg Castle , is a castle high above the Taffatal in the Lower Austrian municipality of Irnfritz-Messern , northwest of Horn .

The first written mention of Wiltperch Castle comes from the 12th century. The castle belonged to the Lords of Wildperch, probably a branch of the Counts of Poigen.

After the male line of Hohenburg-Wildberg had died out, the castle came to the Counts of Vohburg, partisans of the Hohenstaufen family, as a princely fiefdom at the beginning of the 13th century . Then it came to the Lords of Maissau . The Lords of Puchheim, who owned Wildberg Castle from 1432, expanded it into a fortified castle that also served as a place of refuge during the turmoil of the 17th century. At the end of the 16th century, they set up a printing house for Protestant writings and converted the castle complex into a renaissance castle. In connection with the Horner Bund, the printing company made Wildberg a center of Lower Austrian Protestantism. Among the numerous tracts printed in the castle was the writing of the castle preacher Johann Tettelbach von Karlstein in 1586: "Christian confession of unanimous consensus, concerns and advice."

Multiple alterations and extensions during the 16th and 17th centuries left only the foundation walls of the medieval complex. Worth seeing are the Palas , the black kitchen and the forge.

At the beginning of the re-Catholicization in Lower Austria after 1620, the Wildberg Castle was expropriated from the Lords of Puchheim and passed to the Catholic Barons of Traun; from the 18th to the 20th century it belonged to the manor of Altenburg Abbey . In the 20th century it was partially restored by the Wildberg-Kaja Castle and Palaces Conservation Association with the support of the Monument Office. It was planned in which z. To organize exhibitions, some of which are still desolate, extensive building complex. Today, Wildberg Castle is privately owned and not open to the public.

Coat of arms lock

Wildberg Castle is sometimes referred to as the “coat of arms castle”, as the Counts of Hohenburg-Wildberg had a red-white-red shield as their coat of arms. Some historians are of the opinion that the red-white-red shield used by the Babenbergers from the 13th century onwards , which was later adopted by the Habsburgs and is the origin of today's national colors of Austria .

literature

  • Gerhard Stenzel: From castle to castle in Austria. With aerial photographs by Lothar Beckel. 2nd improved and enlarged edition. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-218-00278-8 , p. 239: Wildberg, northwest of Horn, near knives.
  • Gerhard Stenzel: From castle to castle in Austria. With aerial photographs by Lothar Beckel. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-218-00288-5 , p. 248: Wildberg, northwest of Horn, near knives.

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