Wolfsberg [ˈvɔlfsbɛʁk] ( Slovene : Volšperk ) is a town in Carinthia , Austria , the capital of Wolfsberg District .
11-611: Wolfsberg may refer to: Places [ edit ] Wolfsberg, Carinthia , a district capital in Carinthia, Austria Wolfsberg Airport , a private use airport located near Wolfsberg, Carinthia, Austria Wolfsberg Castle (Carinthia) , in Wolfsberg, Carinthia Wolfsberg Castle (Harz) , a ruined castle in the Harz mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Wolfsberg Castle (Obertrubach) ,
22-527: A Belgian aircraft manufacturer Wolfsberg Group , a private association of eleven global banks, founded in 2000 at the Schloss Wolfsberg, near Ermatingen, Switzerland Wolfsberg (adelsätt) , a Swedish noble family People [ edit ] Wolfsberg (surname) See also [ edit ] Wolfsburg (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
33-640: A center 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. In World War II the village of Priel south of the town center was the site of the Stalag XVIII-A prisoner-of-war camp with about 7,000 inmates. After
44-532: A hill in the Harz mountains , Germany Wolfsberg (Saxon Switzerland) , a hill in Saxony, Germany In other uses [ edit ] Wolfsberger AC , a football club from Wolfsberg, Carinthia ATSV Wolfsberg , a football club in the third-tier Austrian Regional League Central Wolfsberg, a Nazi concentration camp near Breslau, where Holocaust survivor David Weiss Halivni and Hermann Kahan were taken during World War II Wolfsberg Aircraft Corporation ,
55-625: A ruined castle in Obertrubach, in Franconian Switzerland, Bavaria, Germany Wolfsberg (district) , a district of Carinthia, Austria Wolfsberg im Schwarzautal , a municipality in Styria, Austria Wolfsberg (Eggenfelden) , a district of Eggenfelden , Bavaria, Germany Wolfsberg (Sangerhausen) , a district of Sangerhausen , Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Wolfsberg, Thuringia , a former municipality, today part of Ilmenau, in
66-795: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wolfsberg, Carinthia 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 km (108 sq mi)
77-560: Is the fourth largest in Austria. The municipality comprises 40 cadastral communities (Surface area in hectares 31. Dezember 2019): The municipal area is divided into 65 villages (population in brackets as of 1 January 2020): 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
88-610: The district Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany Wolfsberg , the German name for Gărâna village, Brebu Nou Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania Hills [ edit ] Wolfsberg (Calenberg Land) , a hill in Lower Saxony, Germany Wolfsberg (Haardt) , a hill on which lies Wolfsburg Castle, Neustadt , Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Wolfsberg (Hohegeiß) , a hill in the Harz mountains , Germany Wolfsberg (Ilsenburg) ,
99-416: The title Wolfsberg . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wolfsberg&oldid=1191423991 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
110-614: 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. During the Protestant Reformation the Bayerhofen Castle residence, first mentioned in 1239 and rebuilt in the 16th century, became
121-583: The war it served as a detention camp run by the British occupation forces . Seats in the municipal council ( Gemeinderat ) as of 2015 local elections: Wolfsberg is twinned with: Lavanttal Alps The Lavanttal Alps ( German : Lavanttaler Alpen , Slovene : Labotniške Alpe ) are part of the Central Eastern Alps in Austria and Slovenia , between the river Mur in
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