Theme Week Carinthia – Wolfsberg
Saturday, 27 December 2014 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General
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Wolfsberg Castle © Neithan90
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Wolfsberg is a town and the capital of
Wolfsberg District . The town is situated within the
Lavanttal Alps , west of the
Koralpe range in the valley of the
Lavant River , a left tributary of the
Drava . In the northeast, the road up to the
Packsattel mountain pass connects Wolfsberg with
Voitsberg in
Styria . Wolfsberg’s municipal area of 279 km2 (108 sq mi) is the fourth largest in Austria. The area of Wolfsberg belonged to the estates within the medieval
Duchy of Carinthia that were ceded to the
Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg , probably already by
Emperor Henry II in 1007. The castle above the town was first mentioned as
Wolfsperch in an 1178 deed of
St. Paul’s Abbey in the Lavanttal . The adjacent settlement became the administrative centre of Bamberg’s Carinthian territories and in 1331 received town privileges by Prince-Bishop Werntho Schenk von Reicheneck.
Castle Thuern with vineyard © Johann Jaritz/cc-by-sa-3.0-at
During the Protestant
Reformation the Bayerhofen Castle residence, first mentioned in 1239 and rebuilt in the 16th century, became a centre of
Lutheranism , which nevertheless was suppressed by the
Counter-Reformation . In 1759 the
Habsburg empress
Maria Theresa acquired all Bamberg lands in Carinthia. Wolfsberg Castle was purchased by
Count Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck in 1846 and rebuilt in a
Tudorbethan style .
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