Poigen#

Poigen, Lower Austria, village in the municipality of St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen in the district of Horn, which gave its name to an important dynasty of medieval counts; first documented mention in 1108; the counts of Poigen ruled over the Horn basin from the end of the 11th  century to the beginning of the 13th  century; their realm was called "Poigreich" until the 18th  century. They founded the monastery of Altenburg. The Poig-Rebgau line died out before 1188/1189, the Poig-Hohenburg-Wildberg line before 1210.

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