Merkenstein ruins

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Vischer - engraving by Merkenstein, 1670

The Merkenstein Castle is a castle in Lower Austria Bad Vöslau in the cadastral Großau. The castle is now only preserved as a ruin. After unsafe sources it was mentioned before 1141. The first certain record comes from the Codex Falkensteinensis to 1170.

In 1486 it was conquered by King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. In the following years she was initially managed by imperial grooms; 1603 to 1672 she was in possession of the hot Perger family, then the Dietrichsteiner. In 1683 the castle was captured and destroyed by Ottoman troops.

To rule Merkenstein scored in the 16th century except Gainfarn and Großau the rule Pott stone and the offices Furth, Muggendorf and St. Veit.

For Good Merkenstein belonged next to the much younger castle Merkenstein about 40 % of the municipal area of the former town Großau. By the end of the Second World War the castle next to the estate owned by the German line of the Krupp family was. Therefore, they fell as German property after the war in the USIA management of the Soviets. According to the State Treaty, the castle came into the possession of the Republic, and thus in which the Federal Forests.

The German composer Ludwig van Beethoven has the ruins Merkenstein dedicated two songs.

In October 2008, the ruin was the site of filming for the television crime drama Four Women and a Funeral.

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Ruins from the access road