sentences:  The local Salzburg bailiffs resided at Althofen Castle, which was devastated in the 15th century Austrian–Hungarian War and rebuilt from about 1500 as the "Neues Schloss" (New Castle) under Prince-Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach.A Catholic church was first mentioned in 1307, then under the auspices of the Friesach parish.The present-day parish church with its massive steeple is the only one in Carinthia dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury, it was built about 1400, with Baroque ornamentation in the 18th century and Neo-Gothic embellishment in 1908–10.