!!!Ortenburg

Ortenburg, Carinthia, ruins southeast of Baldramsdorf in the district 
of Spittal an der Drau, on the edge of the Lurnfeld basin. The counts 
of Ortenburg, a branch of the Sponheim family, died out in 1421. In 
the 16%%sup th/%  century, Gabriel de Salamanca, who came to Austria 
with Ferdinand I of Spain, adopted the name Ortenburg for himself 
and his descendants. The newer Ortenburg Castle near Baldramsdorf, 
built around 1720, was a Hieronymite monastery until its 
secularisation; today it is a crafts museum.


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