Friesach Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
municipality in Sankt Veit/Glan District, Carinthia, Austria
About Friesach
Friesach (pop. 5,000) is the oldest town in Carinthia, with the city charter dating from 1215, but the place has been inhabited since much earlier - a document from 860, signed by King Ludwig, transfers an estate "in the birch forest" ("ad friesah", from Slavicbreza) in then Carantania to the Archdiocese of Salzburg. The city and the area around it was a significant center of mining industry and at the same time an important stop on the trade route from Vienna to Venice, and the silver from the local mines was used to mint theFriesach penny(pfennig), a favorite currency of traders on that route and throughout the eastern Alps. The brief period of prominence came to a slow halt with the arrival of the Habsburgs as the new Dukes of Carinthia in the 14th century, who sought to diminish the po
Top Attractions in Friesach
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- ★Petersberg Castle
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