Owing to its location near the Austrian border with Bohemia the nearby market town held by the Lords of Ottenstein was devastated during the Hussite Wars in 1427 and again in the run-up to the Battle of White Mountain in 1620.
Burg bei Magdeburg | Ottenstein | Teodor von Burg | Den Burg | Burg Ottenstein | Burg Gutenfels | Burg | Elizabeta Burg | Burg Kreuzenstein | Burg Hardegg | Burg Ebernburg | ''Burg Drachenfels'', and in the background ''Wolkenburg'' on an engraving |