Burgruine Ortenburg

The break Ortenburg is positioned in the Austrian village Unterhaus the network Baldramsdorf, west of Spittal an der Drau, positioned on the lower north slope of the Goldeck and the southeastern edge of the Lurnfeld. The hill castle is a dual fortress, 740 m above sea degree, with drawbridges in two courtyards with a Gothic bailey and a Romanesque hold. In the 0.33 courtyard is a Romanesque-Gothic fortress chapel, a fortified tower and the Palas.

The plant changed into built by means of Adalbert, the Freising Vizedom in Lurngau 1070 to 1096, whose son Otto become from 1141 Count von Ortenburg called. The oldest documentary point out of the castle dates returned to 1136. The earthquake of 1348 destroyed the Ortenburg like different Carinthian castles or at least broken it. Once the castle become the middle of the mighty Carinthian county, to which the former metropolis area of ??Teurnia Celtic Roman capital of Binnennoricums and early Christian episcopal see, the Drautal of Mollbrucke to Villach and possessions in Upper Carniola and Lower Carniola on the threshold or consisting of the Gottschee belonged.