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Topic:	Hohenburg and Taxburg by Igls, Tirol, Austria

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katharina I am looking for information about two castles: Hohenburg and Taxburg. They are situated by the village Igls in Tirol (Insbruck Land), Austria. I am interested more in finding pictures of this castles, but any other information will be also appreciated. This is what I already know about this castles:
HOHENBURG: It is since 1345. To the 19th centery it became a ruin and was renovated. Julius von FICKER aus Paderborn (1826-1902) was it's owner and lived there in the 19th centery. How does it lookes like today? Who owned it in the 20th centery?
TAXBURG: No information.
ipflo pics of these castles are very difficult to find
http://www.sagen.at/tirol/div/derschatzaufderhohenburg.html about the treasure which you can find there
http://web.utanet.at/aignere4/index.html is a private site of igls, maybe you can mail the site-owner to ask for some info or pics about the castles
ipflo in a book of my i have found a plan of the hohenburg castle, i have uploaded it to the photo archive ( http://www.castlesontheweb.com/archive/files/Austrian_Castles/hohenburg.jpg ). unfortunately i couldn't find a plan of taxburg castle
katharina Thank you for the plan of the Hohenburg castle. The description by the plan explaines, that it is a fortifyed house, build on a hill. It was abandened in the 17th centery, than rebuild in 1877 and used as a summer residence, I think, by Julius von Ficher aus Paderborn before his death in 1902.
Thank you for trying Taxburg.
Godfrey Is the schloss Hohenburg the same schloss that was used in the film "Where Eagles Dare".I have just watched a TV show on the making of the film but they said the schloss was called HOHENBERGEN.
ipflo No in 'Where eagles dare' is an other austrian castle used: Hohenwerfen in Salzburg, Austria.
you can find some info about this great castle at
http://images.google.com/images?q=hohenwerfen&hl=nl&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.burger.si/Austria/Werfen/Hohenwefen.html
http://www.salzburg-burgen.at/
http://hem.passagen.se/saramagnusson/archive/art/art02.htm
http://www.whereeaglesdare.com/index2.htm
Marko Here's another site about the Hohenburg, with some German info. http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.h/h771134.htm
Couldn't find any mention at all about the Taxburg on any site or searchengine.
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