Ruine Pflindsberg

Pflindsberg Castle
Altaussee, Styria, Austria
Copper engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer around 1681.
Type	Hill castle
Height	945 m
Site information
Condition	Ruin
Site history
Built	~1250
Built by	Philipp von Spanheim

Ruine Pflindsberg is a castle in Styria, Austria.

Around 1250 Philipp of Spanheim, the Archbishop-elect of Salzburg, occupied the Ausseerland and the Ennstal in Styria. For the coverage of his claim to power he built the small Pflindsberg castle on a hill west of the village Altaussee.^[1] In 1254 he had to withdraw, and the region returned to Styria. In the following centuries the Pflindsberg castle developed into a regional seignory with the right to hold high justice. It was administered by an official of the styrian Landesfürst.^[2] The castle was abandoned in 1755 and already a ruin in 1780.^[3]

Pflindsberg Castle 1750
Pflindsberg Castle around 1900
Pflindsberg Castle 2012

References

^ Reinhard Lamer: Das Ausseer Land. Geschichte und Kultur einer Landschaft. Styria, Graz 1998, p. 31f. ISBN 3-222-12613-5
^ Karl Vocelka: Die Haus- und Hofnamen der Katastralgemeinden Altaussee, Grundlsee, Lupitsch, Obertressen, Reitern und Strassen im Steirischen Salzkammergut. Band 1 (= Dissertationen der Universität Wien 102). Verband der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften Österreichs, Wien 1974, p. 19f.
^ "Tourist association Altaussee". Archived from the original on 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2012-08-04.