Burg Pottenburg — Attraction in Gemeinde Wolfsthal

Great historic place! Since it's a very short walk from the road, it's a good idea to combine the visit with Königswarte observation tower, accessible from Berg village on the other side of the hill. It only takes 15 min to walk down from the tower on a cool forest trail.

Pottenburg Castle, also known as Hasenburg or Mädchenburg (Maiden Castle), is a ruined medieval border fortress in Lower Austria, near the village of Berg. Situated on a spur of the Little Carpathians on Hindlerberg Hill, close to the Austrian-Slovak border, it once overlooked the vanished settlement of Amberg. The earliest fortifications may date to 990–1025, during Hungarian invasions, with the first documented mention in 1256. Initially owned by Count Poto. In 1482, Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus captured Pottenburg, using it as a frontier stronghold against Austria until 1492. In 1529, during the first Ottoman siege of Vienna, Suleiman I’s army swept through the region, devastating borderlands. Pottenburg fell almost without resistance and was destroyed by the Turks. Nearby Hainburg an der Donau, a key Habsburg outpost 10 km away, was also captured, looted, and partially ruined in 1529. But Pottenburg was never rebuilt and remained in ruins.

Today, the ruins include remnants of a 26.5-meter, 13th-century tower, a Gothic portal, and parts of a residential building with a well courtyard. Unrestored but...

Very easy tour that takes very little time and effort. Very easy for kids too! You can park down besides the ruin of some biogas facility. There you have multiple options of very easy walk, for the kids the most "adventurous" would be the left one over the fence on the ladder, thats pretty cool, and there are some nice views of Bratislava from there. The ruin is nice and very OLD, it has very nice tower that is visible from the road of the border-crossing Berg/Bratislava. If Austrians took better care of it and cleaned up the courtyard of the castle and possibly added some poster with the info about the castle it...

Hrad na úbočí kopca Konigswarte, v zalesnenej a ohradenej zvernici. Prístup po turistickej značke buď zhora od rozhľadne na vrchole kopca, alebo zdola od Wolfsthalle. V oboch prípadoch treba prekonať oplotenie zvernice pomocou rebríku. My sme išlo zhora, kde je časť chodníka vedená po asfaltovej ceste (tá vedie k vojenskej telekomunikačnej stanici) a odbočka na chodník k hradu je označená fotografiou hradnej veže. Hrad nie je úplnou ruinou, je dosť zachovaná hradná veže - aj keď nie je prístupná mimo jednej miestnosti na prízemí. Hlavný vchod do veže je - ako býva zvykom u takýchto stavieb - vo výške a schodisko padlo za obeť zubu času. Hoci troška zručnejší človek by nemal problém sa do otvoru dostať, my sme to neskúšali. Nie len preto, že nerál lozím tam, kde nemám, ale aj preto, lebo v čase našej návštevy bolo už niekoľko dní dosť hmlisto a kamene miestami pokrývala namrznutá vyzrážaná vlhkosť. V hrade sú okrem veže (tá vyzerá byť aspoň čiastočne konzervovaná - neviem či je to aj skutočne tak) zachované aj ďalšie zvyšky stavieb - hradný múr so zvyškom bašty, oblúková brána, niečo ako výpadová bránka a ďalšie zvyšky múrov. V čase našej návštevy bolo hmlisto, takže veža pri pohľade z chodníka dosť splývala s oblohou a hrad sme reálne zbadali až keď sme boli takmer pri...