Tamsweg

Tamsweg is a market metropolis within the Austrian state of Salzburg near the border with Styria. It is the administrative centre of the eponymous Tamsweg District and the most important town of the Salzburg Lungau place. Once a part of the Roman Noricum province, the Lungau from the 6th century onwards turned into a Slavic agreement area, which inside the 8th century fell beneath the affect of the Bavarian dukes. The locality of Taemswich become first noted about 1156. The parish church, in the beginning a filial of close by Mariapfarr, became received by using Archbishop Eberhard II of Salzburg in 1246.

The Prince-Archbishops had the Saint Leonard pilgrimage church erected approximately 1433, which within the late fifteenth century changed into enlarged as a fortified church in view of repeated Ottoman invasions. In 1490 it changed into occupied via Hungarian troops of King Matthias Corvinus and have become the website of violent fights in opposition to the military of Emperor Frederick III. The Archbishops fought in opposition to the Protestant Reformation of their estates, in the route of the Counter-Reformation, Tamsweg turned into enlarged as an episcopal house and its citizens vested with in addition marketplace rights in 1587, specially regarding the exchange with salt and iron.