ÖSTERREICH	AUSTRIA
Bundesland: Salzburg
Bezirk: Tamsweg

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• el: Μάουτερντορφ
• ru, uk: Маутерндорф

Mauterndorf is situated at an elevation of 1,123 m in the valley of the Südliche Taurach river, about 10 km west of the district town Tamsweg and about 88 km southeast of Salzburg. The municipality has a population of about 1,600 (2024).

The settlement arose from a Roman castra in the Noricum province, at the mountain road from Teurnia to the Radstädter Tauern Pass and Iuvavum (Salzburg). Mauterndorf was first mentioned in written document of 1002. Mauterndorf castle was acquired by the Salzburg archbishops in 1023, who set up a toll station and ceded the inhabitants market rights in 1217. Mauterndorf received access to the Mur Valley Railway in October 1894, as the western terminus of the narrow gauge line leading to Tamsweg, Murau and Unzmarkt in Styria. Passenger service from Tamsweg to Mauterndorf ceased in 1973, the section is today used by the museal Taurach Railway.

The Catholic parish church of Sankt Bartholomäus [background left, barely visible] goes back to a chapel that was first mentioned in 1394. The parish was founded in 1813. The present church was built in the 14th century and was enlarged in 1640–1646. The tower was heightened in 1746. Aisles were added to the nave in 1795.

Mauterndorf castle [background right, barely visible] was probably built on the site of an old Roman fort that dates to AD 326 or earlier. The fort had protected the Roman mountain road from Teurnia via Radstädter Tauern Pass to Iuvavum (present-day Salzburg) and served as a residence for the Roman administrator in the Noricum province. The original fort was destroyed during the Migration Period. In Medieval times, a castle was built in its site for the purpose of collecting a toll (German: Maut). The toll itself was mentiond first in 1002, but the castle itself was not mentione until in 1253, the time when the keep was erected. Held by the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg, the fortress was significantly enlarged during the 15th century, to reach the form it still has today.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauterndorf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauterndorf; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfarrkirche_Mauterndorf; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauterndorf_Castle]