Burg Güssing is the oldest castle in Burgenland. Austria
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  • Photo title: Burg Güssing is the oldest castle in Burgenland. Austria
  • Author: Charibarristudio
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  • Wolfer, a German knight, who arrived to the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Géza II, founded a Benedictine monastery on the top of the mountain Güssing or Küszén in 1157. Contrary to the narrations of the medieval chronicles, he did not erect a wooden castle there; the establishing charter also emphasizes the mount of Küszén was an `uninhabited wasteland` before the erection of the abbey. After a few decades of its operation, Béla III confiscated the abbey from the Benedictine friars and used the abbey`s stone buildings to erect a royal castle Novum Castrum or Újvár, `New Castle`, later Németújvár, `German`s New Castle`, today Burg Güssing on top of the hill around 1180.
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