Neu-Wildon Castle

Because Alt-Wildon was hardly defensible due to its elevated position, the Lords of Wildon built a new castle, called Neu-Wildon, on the eastern summit around the middle of the 13th century. It was first mentioned in 1260.

In the second half of the 13th century, Ulrich von Wildon ceded the "novum castrum" to Otto von Liechtenstein, the son of the minnesinger Ulrich. Otto had married a daughter of his brother Leuthold. The family originally held Wildon as a fief of the Archbishop of Salzburg. However, the sovereign managed to acquire this fief. The Wildoners had to content themselves with a sub-fief.

In 1262, Przemysl Ottokar II took possession of the lordship. After the fall of the Bohemian king, the Wildoners reoccupied their lordship. In 1278, the lordship was divided between Herrand and Hartnid von Wildon. In 1292, he participated in the Styrian noble conspiracy. However, a year later he had to surrender his castles to the Truchsess von Emmerberg, who had besieged them. Hartnid was forced to cede the fortress to the Duke. Wildon remained under ducal rule until 1625. The Wildoners had already died out with Hartneid IV in 1325. In 1435, King Frederick the Fair pledged Wildon to Christof Wolfsauer. In 1440, the lordship was handed over to Leuthold von Stubenberg. In 1445, Frederick III appointed Frederick von Herberstorf as administrator.

In 1469 and 1470, Andreas Baumkircher captured Wildon twice in his feud against the Emperor. After the imperial troops succeeded in finally driving Baumkircher out, Count Wilhelm von Diernstein was entrusted with its care. Still in the 1590s, the pledged lordship came into the possession of Hans Christof von Gera, but soon the pledge holders changed more and more frequently. Emperor Ferdinand II redeemed Wildon and sold it in 1624 to Johann Ulrich Prince of Eggenberg. He began to expand the castle into a palace and then had it administered by caretakers. In 1715, Johann Friedrich Freiherr von Stampfer acquired the lordship. At this time, the castle was already dilapidated and uninhabited.

In 1780, the heavily indebted lordship came to the industrialist Mayerhofer, who was followed in 1792 by the lawyer Dr. Josef Ritter von Griendl. In 1866, the noble Josef von Neupauer bought Neu-Wildon, which had by then completely become a ruin. After the Second World War, the castle hill with the ruins belonged to Hofrat Dipl. Ing. Lui von Frizberg. His family is still its owner today.