Castle Ruins Reichenfels A-9463 Reichenfels

Type: Interesting

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The upper Lavant Valley has belonged to the Diocese of Bamberg since the mid-11th century, which built several castles here to protect the rich gold and silver mines. The first documentary mention of Reichenfels dates back to a dispute over these silver mines between the Diocese of Bamberg and the Carinthian Duke Bernhard von Spanheim. He had the Reichenfels Castle occupied in 1227 to seize the silver mines. After the intervention of Pope Gregory IX and Emperor Frederick II, however, the duke renounced the silver mines as well as the "castrum Richenvelse" in a treaty against compensation of 1000 marks of silver, which was taken over again by the bishops with his previous vassal Wichard von Karlsberg.

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