{"id":1191,"date":"2016-10-21T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T07:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/?page_id=1191"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:14:52","slug":"festung-kufstein","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/ritter-fest-kufstein\/festung-kufstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Festung Kufstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kufstein Fortress is a jewel in the Tyrolean lowlands and a landmark of the district capital Kufstein. Owned by the bishops of Regensburg, the fortress was first mentioned in documents in 1205. Subsequently, the property was shared with the Bavarian dukes.<\/p>\n<p>From 1313, the castle was a Regensburg fiefdom of the Dukes of Bavaria. In 1415, Duke Ludwig the Bearded strengthened the fortifications. In 1504 Emperor Maximilian I besieged and conquered Kufstein and had the castle rebuilt and expanded into a fortress.<\/p>\n<p>In the 17th century, the complex was extended. In 1703 and 1805 the Bavarians conquered the fortress, which was Austrian again from 1814.<\/p>\n<p>It has been owned by the town of Kufstein since 1924. In 1996, the entire complex was leased to Top-City-Kufstein GmbH (now Festung Kufstein GmbH), which has been organising the RITTER-FEST here with the organiser Christian Domeier since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>www.festung.kufstein.at<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Festung Kufstein ist ein Juwel im Tiroler Unterland und Wahrzeichen der Bezirkshaupt-stadt Kufstein. Im Besitz der Bisch\u00f6fe von Regensburg wird die Festung 1205 erstmals urkundlich erw\u00e4hnt. Anschlie\u00dfend wurde der Besitz mit den bayerischen Herz\u00f6gen geteilt. Ab 1313 war die Burg Regensburger Lehen der Herz\u00f6ge von Bayern. 1415 verst\u00e4rkte Herzog Ludwig der Gebartete die Befestigungen. 1504 belagerte und eroberte Kaiser Maximilian I. Kufstein und lie\u00df die Burg neu errichten und zur Festung ausbauen. Im 17. Jahrhundert wurde die Anlage erweitert. 1703 und 1805 eroberten die Bayern die Festung, die ab 1814 wieder \u00f6sterreichisch war. Seit 1924 ist sie im Besitz der Stadt Kufstein. 1996 wurde die gesamte Anlage an die Top-City-Kufstein GmbH (jetzt Festung Kufstein GmbH) verpachtet, die hier seit 2009 das RITTER-FEST mit dem Organisator Christian Domeier veranstaltet. www.festung.kufstein.at<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424,"parent":440,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5276,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1191","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191\/revisions\/2683"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ritter-fest.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}