Burg Sommeregg

The fort Sommeregg changed into within the epoch of the feudal length and the Erbentertanigkeit until 1652 seat of the sovereign lords and burgraves of Sommeregg. In 1442, the district court Sommeregg from the county of Ortenburg have become impartial, which brought about an appreciation of the rule of thumb. The citadel is placed in the district Schloßau the Katastralgemeinde Treffling within the municipality Seeboden on Lake Millstatt in the Austrian province of Carinthia.

The hilltop citadel rises on an ordinary for the Millstatt mountains, turned into saved from decay and presently houses a restaurant and a torture museum on the time of the Inquisition. The discovery of a flap from the urn subject tradition at Treffling advise that the area and for this reason the castle hill became already inhabited as a place of get away approximately four thousand years in the past. For a long time the year 1237 AD, in step with an unknown supply, changed into the primary documentary mention of the fortress Sommeregg, due to the fact this yr Count Wilhelm of Malta have become a fief of Orteregg Goods on Lake Millstatt and under the fortress Sommeregg need to have given.