Wolfsberg Castle (Lower Austria)

Wolfsberg Castle
Creation time :	circa 1531
Conservation status:	Received or received substantial parts
Place:	Angern
Geographical location	48 ° 22 '43 "  N , 15 ° 39' 4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '43 "  N , 15 ° 39' 4"  E
Height:	235  m above sea level A.

The Wolfsberg Castle is a castle in Angern in Lower Austria .

Wolfsberg Castle is located on the steep drop of a high terrace facing the Danube . Below the castle is the place Angern, a cadastral municipality of Krems on the Danube . The castle was built around the year 1531 in the Renaissance style over a medieval manor. Major structural changes took place in the 17th and 19th centuries when its towers were added to the castle. During the First World War it took in numerous Galician refugees .

Wolfsberg Castle has had numerous owners in its history. From the 13th century it came into the possession of the Göttweig monastery again and again . From the 15th to the 17th century, the castle mostly belonged to the Edler von Geyer family.

After a convalescent home had been operated by the public welfare institution of the City of Vienna from 1922 , from 1934 to 1989 the Order of Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus ran a convalescent home and from 1960 a retirement home. In 1989 the nuns sold the property to a real estate agency. From this, the castle went to the doctor and chemist Birkmayer in 1992, who wanted to convert it into a center for health and relaxation. In 2006, Nikolaus Fuchs' family was the last owner of the castle to purchase the property.

literature

• Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger a. a. (Editing): Dehio Handbook. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria south of the Danube . Part 1: A – L. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 ,
• Rudolf Büttner: Castles and palaces on the Danube . Vienna (Birkenverlag) 1977, ISBN 3-85030-017-X
• Rudolf Büttner: Castles and palaces in the Dunkelsteiner Forest . Vienna (Birkenverlag) 1973, ISBN 3-85030-005-6 ,
• Georg Clam-Martinic : Österreichisches Burgenlexikon , Linz 1992, ISBN 978-3-902397-50-8 , p. 211.
• Gerhard Stenzel : From castle to castle in Austria. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-218-00288-5

Web links

Commons : Schloss Wolfsberg (Lower Austria)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wolfsberg Castle near Angern at Wetterkreuz.at
• Entry via Wolfsberg (Angern) to Burgen-Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wällischhof in RegiowikiAT accessed on January 18, 2017
2. ↑ Online at Austria Forum