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Ruine Pflindsberg is a castle in Styria Austria. Around 1250 Philipp of Spanheim the Archbishop-elect of Salzburg occupied the Ausseerland and the Ennstal in Styria. For the coverage of his claim to power he built the small Pflindsberg castle on a hill east of the village Altaussee. 1254 he had to withdrawal and the region returned to Styria. In the following centuries the Pflindsberg castle developed into a regional seignory with the right to hold high justice.
