Baldramsdorf
Encyclopedia
Baldramsdorf is a village
and municipality
in the district of Spittal an der Drau
in Carinthia
in Austria
. It is situated in the west of the City of Spittal
, in the southern part of the Lurnfeld
valley between the Drava
river and the Goldeck mountain range. The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden Baldramsdorf and Gschieß, which both were first mentioned in a 1166 deed.
On the slope of the Goldeck mountain in the south stand the ruins of the Ortenburg castle, built between 1093 and 1140, the former seat of the Counts of Ortenburg
.
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
and municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the district of Spittal an der Drau
Spittal an der Drau (district)
The Bezirk Spittal an der Drau is an administrative district in Carinthia, Austria.Area of the district is 2,763.99 km², population is 81,719 , and population density 30 persons per km². It is Austria's second largest district by area...
in Carinthia
Carinthia (state)
Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...
in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
. It is situated in the west of the City of Spittal
Spittal an der Drau
Spittal an der Drau is located in the western part of the Austrian federal state of Carinthia and the administrative centre of the federal state's second largest district, Spittal an der Drau. It lies between the Lurnfeld area and the Lower Drava Valley. The city consists of the seven...
, in the southern part of the Lurnfeld
Lurnfeld
Lurnfeld is a market town in the district of Spittal an der Drau in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The municipality consists of the two Katastralgemeinden Möllbrücke and Pusarnitz....
valley between the Drava
Drava
Drava or Drave is a river in southern Central Europe, a tributary of the Danube. It sources in Toblach/Dobbiaco, Italy, and flows east through East Tirol and Carinthia in Austria, into Slovenia , and then southeast, passing through Croatia and forming most of the border between Croatia and...
river and the Goldeck mountain range. The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden Baldramsdorf and Gschieß, which both were first mentioned in a 1166 deed.
On the slope of the Goldeck mountain in the south stand the ruins of the Ortenburg castle, built between 1093 and 1140, the former seat of the Counts of Ortenburg
Grafschaft Ortenburg
The Ortenburger were a medieval noble family in the Duchy of Carinthia, with roots in Bavarian nobility. An affiliation with the Counts of Ortenburg-Neuortenburg, a branch line of the Rhenish Franconian House of Sponheim, is not established. Little is known about their reasons for settlement in...
.
Culture and places of interest
- Ruins of Ortenburg Castle (asphaltic road from Unterhaus)
- Mansion in Rosenheim with parts of an old castle
- Paternschloss castle in Unterhaus with the first Carinthian museum of craft