When the Counts of Celje themselves became extinct with the killing of Hermann's grandson Ulrich II in 1456, the Counts of Ortenburg-Neuortenburg claimed their ostensible rights, but failed to prove their kinship to the Carinthian Ortenburgs.
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In 1072, one Adalbert of Ortenburg, probably a younger son of Count Hartwig II of Grögling-Hirschberg (d. 1068/69), served as a Vogt stattholder in the Carinthian possessions of the Bishops of Freising.
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The Counts of Celje had controlled the area - a nexus of important trade routes between Friuli, Carinthia, and the Upper Sava Valley - since 1418, having inherited it from the Counts of Ortenburg.
In medieval times it belonged to the estates of the Hohenwart castle, seat of the Counts of Celje, the Counts of Ortenburg, the Knightly Order of Saint George in Millstatt and finally the Austrian House of Habsburg.