Ruine Pflindsberg
Pflindsberg Castle | |
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Altaussee, Styria, Austria | |
Copper engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer around 1681. | |
Type | Hill castle |
Height | 945 m |
Site information | |
Condition | Ruin |
Site history | |
Built | ~1250 |
Built by | Philipp von Spanheim |
Ruine Pflindsberg is a castle in Styria, Austria.
Around 1250 Philipp of Spanheim, the Archbishop-elect of Salzburg, occupied the Ausseerland and the Ennstal in Styria. For the coverage of his claim to power he built the small Pflindsberg castle on a hill east of the village Altaussee.[1] 1254 he had to withdrawal and the region returned to Styria. In the following centuries the Pflindsberg castle developed into a regional seignory with the right to hold high justice. It was administered by an official of the styrian Landesfürst.[2] The castle was abandoned in 1755 and already a ruin in 1780.[3]
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Pflindsberg Castle 1750
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Pflindsberg Castle around 1900
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Pflindsberg Castle 2012
See also
References
- ↑ Reinhard Lamer: Das Ausseer Land. Geschichte und Kultur einer Landschaft. Styria, Graz 1998, p. 31f. ISBN 3-222-12613-5
- ↑ Karl Vocelka: Die Haus- und Hofnamen der Katastralgemeinden Altaussee, Grundlsee, Lupitsch, Obertressen, Reitern und Strassen im Steirischen Salzkammergut. Band 1 (= Dissertationen der Universität Wien 102). Verband der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften Österreichs, Wien 1974, p. 19f.
- ↑ "Tourist association Altaussee" (in German).