!!!Pittener Grafschaft

Pitten County, march in the southeast of Lower Austria with  Pitten 
Castle as its centre. Was built by order of Margrave Gottfried von 
Wels-Lambach after 1042/43 and handed over to his successors, the 
Counts of Formbach-Neuburg, around 1050. After this line had died out, 
possessions and sovereignty fell to the Styrian Otakars in 1158 and to 
the Babenbergs in 1192. The monastery of Reichersberg (Upper Austria) 
owned numerous estates in Pitten County. The territory of Pitten 
County was part of Styria until the 16%%sup th/%  century.


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