page_title: Hengsberg
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hengsberg / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: historische Landkarte BIXa054 section 115 Josephinische Landesaufnahme: Gebiet von Stainz bis Wildon, Steiermark, Österreich
context_page_description: Hengsberg is a municipality in the district of Leibnitz in Styria, in southeast Austria.
context_section_description: The first historical entry dates back to the year 892 (Hengistburg/Hengistfeldon), which means "castle of Hengist".
  Hengsberg is considered to be the most probable location for the old "Hengistburg". The Hengistburg was the center of the early Medieval so-called Carinthian Mark. This was at the same time the heart of today's Styria. The exact localisation of the Hengistburg is still one of the major questions of the early Styrian history. The castle was destroyed in the year 1053 by Hungarians. Other possible locations include Graz, St. Margarethen bei Lebring, the castle-hill of Wildon, as well as St. Lorenzen am Hengsberg. But there are several important arguments that "castrum Heingist" was located in Hengsberg.
  In the year 1045, King Heinrich III donated the royal demesne Leitersdorf an der Laßnitz, situated in the margraviate Gottfrieds and in the Forest Sausal to the Archbishop Balduin (predium quale visi sumus Liutoldasdorf habere, in comitatu Gotefridi marchionis et foresto Susel iuxta litus Losnicae fluminis situm). The abolition of the manorial system took place in 1848. At that time, the municipality as an autonomous body appeared. This was in 1850. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the municipality was part of the "Reichsgau Steiermark". From 1945 to 1955, it remained part of the zone occupied by the British Army in Austria.
  Historical maps of the region of Hengsberg
caption: "Hengstberg": Josephinic survey, appr. 1790.
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