Scharnstein

Scharnstein is a marketplace metropolis in Upper Austria inside the district of Gmunden in Traunviertel with 4890 population. The Counts of Rebgau commenced round 1120 with the construction of Scharnstein Castle. 1204 was the primary documentary point out. As early as 1492, the imperial order attendant on Wildenstein, Christoph Jorger zu Reut, bought from Sigmund Graf Schaunberg the fortress Alt-Scharnstein together with the district court at the Moos, which he sold to Emperor Maximilian I some years later.

In 1538, the fortress burned down due to negligence. Johann Fernberger used the cash now not for the reconstruction of the citadel, however for the development of Pfleghauses. 1584 obtained the Jorger, specially Helmhart VIII Jorger, the rule Scharnstein and constructed a strong fort constructing subsequent to the prevailing Pfleghaus, the new workplace building on the Schafferleiten, and founded in 1585 and the primary reaper hammers on the Alm. In the Counter-Reformation in 1621 all Possessions of Jorger, who had taken complete responsibility for the dissemination of the Protestant doctrine in Upper Austria and subsequently with open opposition; the rule of thumb Scharnstein changed into offered in 1625 to the monastery Kremsmunster.