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Sachsenburg is a
The municipal area stretches along the valley of the river, where it enters the
Two fortresses blocking the passage along the river were first mentioned in a 1213 deed. Sachsenburg is documented as an administrative seat of the Archbishops of Salzburg in 1292, who held large possessions within the
Seats in the municipal assembly (''Gemeinderat'') as of 2015 local elections:
* ''Aktionsgemeinschaft'' (
market town
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in the district of Spittal an der Drau
Spittal an der Drau is a town in the western part of the Austrian federal state of Carinthia. It is the administrative centre of Spittal an der Drau District, Austria's second largest district (''Bezirk'') by area.
Geography
The town is located o ...
in Carinthia
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, Austria
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.
Geography
The municipal area stretches along the valley of the river, where it enters the 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, comprising several small villages.
It is located within t ...
plain between the Kreuzeck group
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of the Hohe Tauern
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mountain range in the north and Gailtal Alps , ''Drauzug''
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in the south. The municipality comprises the cadastral communities
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of Sachsenburg and Obergottesfeld.
History
The origin of the name is uncertain: an affiliation with the far apart mediævalDuchy of Saxony
The Duchy of Saxony ( nds, Hartogdom Sassen, german: Herzogtum Sachsen) was originally the area settled by the Saxons in the late Early Middle Ages, when they were subdued by Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 772 and incorporated into the C ...
has never been established; however the coat of arms probably awarded in the 16th century shows a ''Saxe'', a kind of pan formerly used for gold prospecting
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within the nearby Hohe Tauern range. The strategically important narrow place of the Drava valley (''Sachsenburger Klause'') probably was guarded already in Roman
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times, when the area was part of the ''Noricum
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'' province.
Two fortresses blocking the passage along the river were first mentioned in a 1213 deed. Sachsenburg is documented as an administrative seat of the Archbishops of Salzburg in 1292, who held large possessions within the Duchy of Carinthia
The Duchy of Carinthia (german: Herzogtum Kärnten; sl, Vojvodina Koroška) was a duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia. It was separated from the Duchy of Bavaria in 976, and was the first newly created Imperial Sta ...
. As a Salzburg stronghold, it was a thorn in the flesh of both the Carinthian dukes and the Counts of Gorizia
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at Lienz
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, therefore often under attack by their forces. In 1252, Count Meinhard III of Gorizia allied with his father-in-law Count Albert IV of Tyrol laid siege to the fortress, though to no avail. The Salzburg archbishops granted the settlement market rights in 1326 and had further ramparts and town walls erected.
Not until 1803 the Salzburg possessions were finally mediatised. The fortifications were razed in 1813, when Upper Carinthia formed the northernmost part of the French-occupied Illyrian Provinces
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. During the Revolutions of 1848
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, several citizens on March 20 proclaimed an independent "Republic of Sachsenburg", they were however immediately suppressed by the Austrian
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military. The Sachsenburg municipality originated in 1850, it was merged with neighbouring Möllbrücke and Pusarnitz into the market town of 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, comprising several small villages.
It is located within t ...
, but regained independence in 1992.
Politics
Seats in the municipal assembly (''Gemeinderat'') as of 2015 local elections:
* ''Aktionsgemeinschaft'' (Independent
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* Social Democratic Party of Austria
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(SPÖ): 5
* Austrian People's Party
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(ÖVP): 3
Twin towns
Sachsenburg is twinned with: *Spilimbergo
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, Italy
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* Sachsenburg, Frankenberg, Saxony
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It was the site of the Nazi con ...
, Germany
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References
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Spittal an der Drau District