| Griffen Castle | |
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| Carinthia, Austria | |
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| Type | Castle |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Built | 1124-1146 |
| Built by | Otto of Bamberg |
| In use | until 1768 |
| Demolished | 1840 |
| Current condition |
ruins |
| Current owner |
Market Town of Griffen |
| Open to the public |
yes |
| Battles/wars | 1292-1293 occupied by Count Ulrich von Heunberg |
The Burg Griffen is a castle on a 130m/427ft-high limestone mountain above the town of Griffen in the Austrian state of Carinthia. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Saint Otto of Bamberg (Otto von Bamberg 1060 or 1061 - June 30, 1139) was a Medieval German Bishop and Missionary A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 Griffen ( Slovene: Grebinj) is a town in the district of Völkermarkt in Carinthia in Austria, home to the Griffen Abbey Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Carinthia (Kärnten Koroška is the southernmost Austrian state or Land.
History
The castle was built between 1124 and 1146 by order of Bishop Otto of Bamberg. Saint Otto of Bamberg (Otto von Bamberg 1060 or 1061 - June 30, 1139) was a Medieval German Bishop and Missionary In a 1160 deed, Emperor Friedrich I mentioned Grivena as a Bamberg property. Frederick I Barbarossa (1122 &ndash 10 June 1190) was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned
In 1292 the Carinthian nobleman Count Ulrich von Heunburg with support of Archbishop Konrad IV of Salzburg occupied the fort in an uprising against Albert of Habsburg, the son of King Rudolph I of Germany and Duke Meinhard II. The Duchy of Carinthia (Herzogtum Kärnten Vojvodina Koroška was a Duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia. The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state of the Holy Roman Empire, roughly consisting of the present-day state of Salzburg (the Albrecht I of Habsburg (July 1255 &ndash May 1, 1308) sometimes named as Albert I, was King of the Romans, Duke of Austria Rudolph I, also known as Rudolph of Habsburg ( German: Rudolf von Habsburg, Latin Rudolfus) May 1, 1218 &ndash Meinhard II (c 1238 - end of October 1295 was Count of Tirol, Duke of Carinthia and Carniola, and Count of Gorizia (as Meinhard However Ulrich was abandoned by his allies and one year later had to leave the castle. In 1759 Bishop Adam Friedrich sold the Bamberg estates in Carinthia to Maria Theresa of Austria and the castle was incorporated into the Carinthian duchy. Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia see also names in other languages; May 13, 1717 November 29 1780) was the Archduchess regnant
About 1520 a large reconstruction of the castle took place as a protection against the threat posed by the Ottoman forces with a base amounted of about 4000 m², though the Turks never laid siege to Griffen. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish The Turkish people (Türk Halkı also known as " Turks " ( Türkler) are defined mainly as being speakers of Turkish as a First language In 1659 a flash impact destroyed one of the towers and the decay of the castle began. In 1768 a last religious service took place and about 1840 the roofs were torn. In 2000 the preservation of the castle began. A steep footpath leads up the mountain to the ruins.
Cave
Within the mountain is the Griffener Tropfsteinhöhle (dripstone cave) with a length of 485m/1591ft, which was not discovered until the late days of World War II. Dripstone caves are a type of solutional caves, mostly in Limestone, called so for the typical Dripstones hanging from their ceiling which have been formed World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including It is open to public and a natural landmark since 1957.
External link
- (German) Griffen at burgen.de
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