Fürstenstein (Carinthia)

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The prince stone, which has been installed in the coat of arms hall of the Klagenfurt country house since March 2006

The prince stone ( Slovenian Knežji Kamen ) is a historical hewn stone that is exhibited today in the Klagenfurt country house . It is considered to be the oldest legal monument in Carinthia and, according to popular belief, served as a ritual for the princes of Carantania who resided in Karnburg am Zollfeld after the Slavic settlement of Carinthia . However, there are serious doubts in science today as to whether the rule of such Carantan princes ever extended south over the Karawanken.

History and meaning

The Fürstenstein in its mid-19th century position near the parish church of Karnburg (based on a depiction by Markus Pernhart , around 1860)

Around the year 600 the first independent Slavic state in Europe was founded here. This custom was later taken up by the Carinthian dukes from 976 AD and integrated into the ritual of the Carinthian ducal establishment . The Fürstenstein later formed the second important but much older legal monument in the medieval history of Carinthia , alongside the Herzogstuhl , which was not built until the 9th century .

It consists of the inverted base part of a Roman-Ionic column that comes from Virunum , the capital of the Roman province of Noricum . In the Middle Ages, the Carinthian coat of arms was carved on the surface of the stone . Until 1862 the Fürstenstein was in Blachfeld, northwest of the parish church of Karnburg . It was then acquired by the History Association for Carinthia, which had chosen the Great Coat of Arms Hall of the Klagenfurt country house as the exhibition venue . From 1905 to November 2005 the Fürstenstein was in the auditorium of the Carinthian State Museum . It was shown for four months in the foyer of the state government in Klagenfurt before it can be viewed again in the country house's great coat of arms hall since March 2006 .

In 1161 the prince stone is mentioned for the first time as "sedes Karinthani ducatus", a further mention can be found in the "Liber certarum historiarum" of the abbot Johann von Viktring from the 14th century, who over the elevation of Meinhard II of Görz-Tirol to duke in the year 1286 reported: Meinhard was the power of a person sitting on the Fürstenstein yeomanry transferred after the formal submission to the new Duke this took the place on the Fürstenstein. The ceremony ended in the ducal chair.

The Fürstenstein was last used on March 18, 1414 when Duke Ernst the Iron of Habsburg was appointed. The original place of enthronement of the Carantan princes is presumably in the vicinity of the parish Karnburg am Zollfeld , north of Klagenfurt . The ceremony indicated a peasant democratic tradition that was held in Slovenian .

Illustration of the stone on the Slovenian 2 cent coin

The prince stone on the Slovenian 2 cent coin

The national side of the Slovenian 2 cent coin shows the prince stone. This is vehemently criticized by some Carinthians and some Austrian politicians, since in their opinion the Fürstenstein is not a historical element of the Republic of Slovenia. Following the announcement of the Slovenian government to map the prince stone on the 2 cent coins, the then let Governor Haider the prince stone from the Museum of Carinthia demonstratively spend in the foyer of the Carinthian Government. On Haider's initiative, the Fürstenstein was depicted on all official documents and letterheads of the state of Carinthia from 2007 to 2013 as a symbol of the state government.

literature

  • Wilhelm Deuer: The installation of the Carinthian Duke on the Fürstenstein. In: Ostarrîchi - Austria 996–1996. People, myths, milestones. Catalog of the Austrian national exhibition in Neuhofen an der Ybbs and St. Pölten. Edited by Ernst Bruckmüller and Peter Urbanitsch . Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Museum. NF 388. Berger, Horn 1996. XXIV, 736. 4 °. Object no .: 6.1.05, p. 145. ( online , uni-klu.ac.at; history picture and description of the ceremony)
  • Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld : The prince stone. In: History Association for Carinthia. First half of 2006. Klagenfurt 2006. pp. 61–66.
  • Sabine Nikolay: The Carinthian Fürstenstein in the picture. Representations of a European legal monument. Hermagoras, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-7086-0369-8 .
  • A. Ogris: Fürstenstein and Herzogstuhl - symbols of the Carinthian regional history in the conflict of ethnic and territorial tendencies in Slovenian historiography, journalism and politics. In: Carinthia I 183, 1993, 729ff.
  • Josko Šavli : Slovenska znamenja [Slovenian characters]. Založba (Verlag) Humar, Gorica (Görz), Bilje 1994. (The book also contains German-language excerpts and summaries - e.g. Fürstenstein, Herzogstuhl - from the relevant Slovene-language passages.)
  • Josko Šavli: Knežji came to njegova simbolika [The prince stone and its symbolism]. Glas Korotana, 1986, 11, pp. 4-51.
  • Peter Štih: Searching for history or how the Karantan prince stone has become the national symbol of the Slovenes. Central Association of Slow Organizations and Slow Cultural Association. October 30, 2006 ( web document ).

Web links

Commons : Fürstenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Štih: Search for history, or how the Carantan prince stone has become the national symbol of the Slovenes , information portal of the Central Association of Slovenia. Organizations and Slovenian Cultural Association, October 30, 2006 ( Memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Haider-Order - Fürstenstein moves to state government. ORF, November 9, 2005, accessed on February 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Fürstenstein moved to the state government. , Press release, Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government , November 30, 2005
  4. ↑ Fürstenstein in future on Carinthia's letterhead. ORF, December 18, 2007, accessed on February 6, 2014 .
  5. ↑ State of Carinthia has a new logo. oesterreich.at, July 8, 2013, accessed on February 6, 2014 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 29.5 ″  N , 14 ° 18 ′ 20.6 ″  E