Deutschlandsberg

Deutschlandsberg is a metropolis in Styria, Austria, with 11,663 populations. It is the seat of the Bezirkshauptmannschaft Deutschlandsberg. With January 1, 2015, the merger of the city of Deutschlandsberg with the communities Bad Gams, Freiland at Deutschlandsberg, monastery, Osterwitz and Trahütten took place in the framework of the Styrian municipal structural reform. The foundation for this becomes the Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG. The call Lonsperch become first cited around 1153, this pronunciation variant continues to be used inside the 21st century in regular language and files the origin of the name.

The equal root will be within the name of the river Lassnitz, on which lies Deutschlandsberg for which other derivations are feasible. This derivation might prove an ancient Slavic population and their association with the Principality of Carantania. As settlements under the fort Landsberg emerged, the place got its call from the knights circle of relatives of the Lonspercher, who administered the place for the archbishop of Salzburg and had their seat on the fort.