Landskron Castle

Landskron Castle is a medieval hill castle northeast of Villach within the country of Carinthia, Austria. Dating to the early 14th century, the fortress ruins are located on a rock cone of the Ossiach Tauern variety, at an elevation of 658 metres above sea level. Today Landskron Castle, its falconry centre undertaking ordinary flying demonstrations, and the close by macaque enclosure are principal traveler destinations. Settled for the reason that Hallstatt generation, the estates around Lake Ossiach had been first cited in an 878 deed issued with the aid of the East Frankish king Carloman of Bavaria, who granted them to the monastery of Altotting he had set up rapidly before.

About 1024 the area turned into some of the Carinthian possessions of 1 Count Ozi of the Chiemgau, likely a scion of the Otakar dynasty, who founded Ossiach Abbey close by. A citadel already existed, when in 1330 the estates were acquired by the Counts of Ortenburg. Landskron itself became first referred to in 1351, when the Habsburg duke Albert II of Austria, additionally Carinthian duke considering 1335, bought the fort and had it rebuilt as an essential stronghold within the Carinthian possessions of the Bamberg prince-bishops.