Grazerkogel
The Grazerkogel is an elevation on the eastern edge of the Carinthian Zollfeld and lies in the municipality of Sankt Veit an der Glan . It is located between the villages of St. Donat and St. Michael am Zollfeld. A late antique settlement was located on the mountain in the 5th and 6th centuries AD .
During excavations in 1904, a fort , which was built from ancient Spolia , and in it the remains of two early Christian churches were discovered. A 22 × 11 meter hall building stood in the middle of the hill plateau. It was long rectangular, east-facing and had no apse . The semicircular clergy bench stood free in the third of the choir. A wall approach on the north side is interpreted as a sacristy . The remains of a similar building were excavated 22 meters north of this, but which had an apse.
The presence of two churches was previously interpreted as a double church complex (Piccottini), according to which one church would have been used as a parish church, the second as a memorial church for baptism and confirmation. Franz Glaser, however, interprets them as churches of the local Catholic population or the Arian Gothic Christian community. The second church would have been built during the Ostrogoth rule over Noricum (493 to 538).
There is a burial ground on the mountainside east of the Grazerkogel.
Since the name of the mountain includes the term grad = Slavic for castle , the ruins must have been known to the population in the early Middle Ages. The walls were reused as building material, so that only remains of the foundation are left.
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supporting documents
- Gernot Piccottini : The Romans in Carinthia . Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1989, pp. 56-59. ISBN 3-85378-333-3
- Franz Glaser: Early Christian monuments in Carinthia . Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1997, pp. 56-58. ISBN 3-85378-450-X
Coordinates: 46 ° 43 ′ 46 ″ N , 14 ° 22 ′ 56 ″ E