The best walks and hikes around Jaidhof

Awards Edit ● Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis für Literatur (1958) ● Kulturpreis des Landes Niederösterreich (1965) ● Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse (1969) ● Preis der Stadt Wien für Literatur (1969) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imma_Bodmershof

She was engaged to the Hölderlin scholar Norbert von Hellingrath, through whom she also came into contact with Rainer Maria Rilke and Stefan George. Hellingrath, however, fell in the Battle of Verdun in 1916. In 1924, she married the economist Wilhelm von Bodmershof in Krems, who, like Imma, privately engaged with Indian and Far Eastern religions. Together with her husband, she managed the estate of Rastbach Castle. She also lived in Vienna at times.

Imma von Bodmershof (born Emma von Ehrenfels; * August 10, 1895 in Graz; † August 26, 1982 at Rastbach Castle in Gföhl, Lower Austria) was an Austrian writer. The daughter of one of the pioneers and precursors of Gestalt theory, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Emma von Hartmann, she grew up in Waldviertel at Lichtenau Castle, but also spent a lot of time in Prague, where her father worked at the university. She studied art history, philosophy, and graphology at the universities in Prague and Munich. From 1937, she published prose texts connected to tradition and homeland. In 1937, her first novel "Der zweite Sommer" was published. In 1939, the novel Die Stadt in Flandern was published and was included in the recommendation list Das Buch, ein Schwert des Geistes (1940 and 1943). Some shorter stories, including well-known ones like Theres Piernagl (1938, 1941), were published primarily in the magazines and anthologies of S. Fischer Verlag.

The Imma von Bodmershof monument in Gföhl is a memorial stone in honor of the Austrian writer, erected in 1995 on the occasion of her 100th birthday. ● The location is in Sparkassenstraße, 3542 Gföhl (another memorial stone is located in Rastbach). ● The monument was erected in 1995 for Imma von Bodmershof's 100th birthday. ● Imma von Bodmershof (1895–1982) lived and worked at Rastbach Castle near Gföhl and was awarded, among other honors, the Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature.

Gföhl was first mentioned in documents around 1180 and looks back on a long history as a market town and centre of the Waldviertel. The most important milestones Antiquity and settlement: Prehistoric finds (like from the Bronze Age) prove early traces of humans on the Gföhl plateau. Before German settlement from the 12th century onwards, there was a Slavic presence. First mention (1180): The place name is presumably derived from a topographical depression in the ground. Elevation to market town (1314/1493): In 1314, Gföhl is mentioned as a market town. In 1493, Emperor Frederick III granted the town official market rights and a coat of arms. War hardship and crises: In 1426, the Hussites destroyed the town and church. The population also suffered severely during the Peasants' War (1595) and the Thirty Years' War (1645), as well as from the plague (1679/1681).

The Hussitenkreuz in Gföhl is a historical, late Gothic wayside shrine (Marterl) on the Niederlage by the B37, commemorating the Hussite Wars of 1426/27.

A trip to Jaidhof Castle is particularly worthwhile due to the combination of historical architecture, spiritual tranquility, and nature experience.

A trip to Jaidhof Castle is particularly worthwhile due to the combination of historical architecture, spiritual tranquility, and nature experience.