Burgruine Petersberg

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Castle ruins Petersberg

The ruins of the castle Petersberg is a ruined hill fort on the same ridge above the town Friesach. The city is located on the Metnitz Friesach in Carinthia in Austria.

History

Documented, the town was first mentioned in 860, when King Ludwig the German Archbishop of Salzburg Adalwin gave a farm in Friesach.

In the Investiture Controversy of the Salzburg Archbishop Gebhard Party sided with Pope Gregory VII. He built around 1076 on the Petersberg near Friesach a castle to lock Emperor Henry IV the way over the mountain passes.

While the area was temporarily around the castle is owned by the Bishops of Gurk and the Dukes of Carinthia, the castle was probably always in possession of Salzburg. 1123/1124, the castle was successfully defended against the Carinthian Duke Engelbert II of Spanheim.

1124 place Friesach came again into the possession of Salzburg. The Archbishop Konrad von Abensberg was generously expand the castle. Around 1140 was still present so the keep with the Rupert Chapel. The castle was a secondary residence of the Archbishops of Salzburg and served as a refuge during military conflicts.

1149 did king Conrad III. after his retirement from the Second Crusade at the castle on. Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa had the castle occupy 1170, after Archbishop Adalbert III. Party of Bohemia for the Pope Alexander III. had taken. 1192 was King Richard I the Lionheart on his flight to England by Friesach.

In the struggle between the Archbishop of Salzburg Rudolf Hoheneck and Duke Albrecht I of Austria in 1292, the castle was successfully defended against ducal troops.

In relation to the clashes between the Emperor Frederick III. and the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus was occupied by Hungarian troops, the castle from 1479 to 1490.

From 1495 the Salzburg Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach let modernize the castle and gave her and the city's fortifications its present appearance.

Military no longer important, the plant was in 1673 largely destroyed by a fire. It was abandoned in the sequence and fell into disrepair.