sentences:  In 1150 Pörtschach in the Duchy of Carinthia was first attested in written sources.In those days a lake castle was set up, of which little else than some scant remains of a wall can be seen to this day.A parish church was first mentioned in 1328, initially a filial church of Maria Wörth, the present-day building was erected in 1787 and restored in a Neo-Renaissance style in 1904/06.