Spittal

Spittal an der Drau is a municipality with 15,365 inhabitants and at the identical time the seat of the district captain of the identical district inside the province of Carinthia in Austria. The city inside the crossing area of ​​Drautal, Liesertal, Millstätter See, Nockberge and Mölltal is the city middle of Upper Carinthia. 1191 donated Count Otto II of Ortenburg and his brother, the archdeacon Hermann von Ortenburg, on Lieserufer near the existing parish church a clinic with chapel, which the Salzburg Archbishop Adalbert confirmed in a file on 11 April 1191.

The clinic, which gave its call to the region, become supposed for the care of pilgrims who moved south across the Katschberg and the Radstädter Tauern. The forming agreement at the proper Lieser shore changed into beneath the safety of a tower fort Ortenburg, which probably stood at the website of latest fort. In 1242 Spittal turned into raised to the market, the handy area on the mouth of Moll and Lieser in the Drau and the toll and rafting rights at the Drava triggered a first monetary boom.