Fryctoria

Kreidfeuer (from the Latin quiritare, scream, call for help, span. / Portug. Gritar, Italian gridare, French crier, Eng. Cry to cry ), sometimes Kreitfeuer, are warning fire, which in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period were used to signal the approach of hazards. The stations were exposed location, castles or mountain peaks. At each site were always two piles of wood ready, one with dry and damp wood. If a message had to be passed on, was the day the wet pile of wood ignites ( message transfer through the rising smoke ), at night, the dry (submitted by the firelight ).

Large systems of Kreidfeuern were used during the Turkish invasion in the southeast of Austria. Among other things, the following castles were sites for this message system:

• Rieger Castle (Styria )
• Schmirnberg (Styria )
• Castle Gösting in Graz ( Styria)
• Ringkogel in Hartberg ( Styria)
• Wolkenstein ( Styria)
• Neuhaus ( Styria)
• Weitra
• Castle ruins Kollmitz (Lower Austria )
• Clam Castle
• Castle Klingenberg (Upper Austria )
• Bernstein ( Burgenland)
• Kapfenstein (Styria )

Local were also used for alarm or mobilization of the population Kreidfeuer.

Today the name is Kreidfeuer from the Austrian Army used for real-time aerial system, which captures the current state of the Austrian airspace with the help of the radar system Goldhaube. Furthermore, the name for the series of exercises of militia infantry battalion Styria - Archduke Johann used.