Wolfsberg, Carinthia, Austria

Geography | History

🇦🇹 Wolfsberg (Volšperk) is a town in Carinthia, Austria, the capital of Wolfsberg District.

Geography 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 north-east, the road up to the Packsattel mountain pass connects Wolfsberg with Voitsberg in Styria. Wolfsberg's municipal area of 279 km² (108 sq mi) is the fourth largest in Austria.

The municipality comprises 40 cadastral communities (Surface area in hectares 31. Dezember 2019): • Aichberg (1.897,01 ha) • Auen (600,55 ha) • Forst (2.458,67 ha) • Gräbern-Prebl (1.495,09 ha) • Gries (93,78 ha) • Hartelsberg (1.188,11 ha) • Hattendorf (243,20 ha) • Hintertheißenegg (1.444,63 ha) • Kleinedling (435,20 ha) • Kleinwinklern (48,62 ha) • Lading (2.335,45 ha) • Leiwald (1.428,66 ha) • Michaelsdorf (348,40 ha) • Oberleidenberg (1.162,33 ha) • Paildorf (138,81 ha) • Pfaffendorf (101,08 ha) • Preims (1.939,64 ha) • Priel (296,13 ha) • Reding (149,89 ha) • Reideben (114,35 ha) • Reisberg (1.245,59 ha) • Rieding (1.210,13 ha) • Ritzing (92,89 ha) • St. Jakob (107,35 ha) • St. Johann (112,12 ha) • St. Marein (110,33 ha) • St. Margarethen (237,03 ha) • St. Michael (470,82 ha) • St. Stefan (732,21 ha) • Schoßbach (14,49 ha) • Schwemmtratten (45,88 ha) • Thürn (516,80 ha) • Unterleidenberg (334,56 ha) • Vordergumitsch (545,23 ha) • Vordertheißenegg (778,12 ha) • Waldenstein (1.019,73 ha) • Weißenbach (125,86 ha) • Witra (2.185,37 ha) • Wolfsberg Obere Stadt (15,49 ha) • Wolfsberg Untere Stadt (11,20 ha).

The municipal area is divided into 65 villages: • Aichberg; • Altendorf; • Arling; • Auen; • Eselsdorf; • Forst; • Glein; • Gräbern; • Gries; • Großedling; • Hartelsberg; • Hartneidstein; • Hattendorf; • Hintertheißenegg; • Kleinedling; • Kleinwinklern; • Klippitztörl; • Kötsch; • Kragelsdorf; • Lading; • Lading Sonnseite; • Lausing; • Leiwald; • Magersdorf; • Maildorf; • Michaelsdorf; • Oberleidenberg; • Paildorf; • Pfaffendorf; • Pollheim; • Prebl; • Preims; • Priel; • Raggl; • Reding; • Reideben; • Reinfelsdorf; • Reisberg; • Rieding; • Riegelsdorf; • Ritzing; • Schilting; • Schleife; • Schoßbach; • Schwemmtratten; • Siegelsdorf; • St. Jakob; • St. Johann; • St. Marein; • St. Margarethen im Lavanttal; • St. Michael; • St. Stefan; • St. Thomas; • Thürn; • Unterleidenberg; • Völking; • Vordergumitsch; • Vordertheißenegg; • Waldenstein; • Weißenbach Gumitsch; • Weißenbach Rieding; • Witra; • Wois; • Wolfsberg; • Wolkersdorf; • Wölling.

History 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 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 a centre 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 centre was the site of the Stalag XVIII-A prisoner-of-war camp with about 7,000 inmates. After the war it served as a detention camp run by the British occupation forces.

Wörthersee, Klagenfurt, Carinthia 
Wörthersee, Klagenfurt, Carinthia
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Wolfsberg has a population of over 25,035 people. Wolfsberg also forms the centre of the wider Wolfsberg District which has a population of over 56,611 people.

Twin Towns, Sister Cities Wolfsberg has links with:

🇩🇪 Herzogenaurach, Germany 🇦🇱 Korçë, Albania 🇭🇺 Várpalota, Hungary
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Antipodal to Wolfsberg is: -165.167,-46.85

Locations Near: Wolfsberg 14.8333,46.85

🇦🇹 Deutschlandsberg 15.2,46.8 d: 28.4  

🇦🇹 Styria 15.167,47.25 d: 51.2  

🇦🇹 Klagenfurt 14.308,46.624 d: 47.3  

🇦🇹 Leoben 15.095,47.38 d: 62.2  

🇦🇹 Graz 15.438,47.071 d: 52.1  

🇦🇹 Leibnitz 15.533,46.767 d: 54.1  

🇦🇹 Bruck an der Mur 15.267,47.417 d: 71  

🇸🇮 Trbovlje 15.055,46.159 d: 78.6  

🇸🇮 Celje 15.258,46.229 d: 76.4  

🇸🇮 Kranj 14.367,46.233 d: 77.3  

Antipodal to: Wolfsberg -165.167,-46.85

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 17015.3  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16357  

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 16455.5  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16292.7  

🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 12543.4  

🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 12450.7  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 12436.4  

🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 12432.2  

🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 12432.1  

🇺🇸 Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 12401.6  

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