Burg Taggenbrunn

The fort Taggenbrunn is the break of a hill castle inside the municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee near Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia, Austria. Salzburg became the owner of the region in 860 thanks to a present from Ludwig the German. Taggenbrunn turned into constructed on the remains of a Celtic Roman ringed agreement within the first 0.33 of the 12th century by way of Tagenus von Pongau on behalf of the Archdiocese of Salzburg. For the primary time Taggenbrunn is mentioned in files in 1142, explicitly named as a fort in 1157.

In the feud among the Elekten Philipp von Spanheim and Bishop Ulrich von Seckau to the Archdiocese of Salzburg, wherein also Duke Ulrich III. Carinthia intervened in prefer of his brother Philip, the citadel was destroyed in 1258 and rebuilt in 1268. In the uprising Ulrichs von Heunburg against Duke Albrecht I and Duke Meinhard of Carinthia 1292, the Carinthian Duke's son Ludwig was captured and temporarily imprisoned by using the Salzburg Archbishop Konrad IV in Taggenbrunn. In 1308 Otto von Liechtenstein-Murau become appointed governor of Carinthia and Salzburg granted this Taggenbrunn house: Carinthia became governed from Taggenbrunn.