Ortenburg

Ortenburg was a Carinthian county named for its castle on Mount Goldeck. Around 1330 Count Meinhard acquired the Sternberg estates between the Ossiach and Wörth lakes.

The Ortenburgs settled German colonists on their Gottschee lands in the fourteenth century, founding Kočevje. Count Frederick III died childless in 1418, leaving the lands to Hermann II of Cilli. After the Cilli line ended in 1456, the Habsburgs took Ortenburg; Archduke Ferdinand granted it to his treasurer Gabriel von Salamanca in 1524.