The name of the town corresponds with the municipality of Dravograd in Slovenia, former Unterdrauburg, where the Drava crosses the border from Carinthia to Lower Styria.
Reinout Willem van Bemmelen (April 14, 1904 Batavia (Dutch East Indies) - November 19, 1983 Unterpirkach, Austria) was a Dutch geologist whose interests were structural geology, economic geology and volcanology.
He marched against Carinthia from his Tyrolean residence at Bruck Castle, crossing the border at Oberdrauburg and occupying Spittal to lay siege to the Ortenburg fortress.
Meinhard and Albert IV of Tyrol also had to pay a compensation and to renounce certain possessions including Mittersill, Virgen, Matrei and Oberdrauburg.