Tamsweg

Tamsweg lies in the Lungau district of Salzburg's Alpine country. First mentioned around 1156, it came under Salzburg's archbishops, who acquired its parish church in 1246. Around 1433 they had a pilgrimage church dedicated to Saint Leonard built; it was later fortified in response to repeated Ottoman incursions. Hungarian troops occupied the site in 1490, when fighting with imperial forces followed.

During the Counter-Reformation Tamsweg was enlarged as an archiepiscopal residence. In 1587 its inhabitants received further market rights, especially for salt and iron. French forces occupied the town in 1797, and the secularisation of Salzburg in 1803 ended the prince-archbishops' territorial rule.