Thörl-Maglern
Thörl-Maglern ( Slov .: Vrata-Megvarje) is an Austrian village in Carinthia and a place in the market town of Arnoldstein in the Villach-Land district . Located in the Canal Valley at an altitude of 634 m, it is on the border with Italy and has around 700 inhabitants.
There is a border crossing with a customs office here.
Attractions
In the district of Maglern there is a parish church of St. Andreas , designed in 1503 in the Gothic style , whose wall and ceiling frescoes date back to the end of the 15th century. In the choir there is the “Living Cross”, an important work by Thomas von Villach, a passion cycle and the high altar from 1613.
Maglern owns a castle from the late 16th century, the ruins of the Romanesque castle ruins of Straßfried, documented as early as 1279, and the remains of a road station " Meclaria " from the time of Roman settlement.
On the Hoischhügel, the foundation walls of an early Christian hall church built in a late antique fort were exposed . Today there is only one meadow left on this square.
Historical
In the Slovenian language and literature is often to figure report from the service of women of Ulrich von Liechtenstein noted in this Slovenian words of Duke Bernard of Spanheim quoted. Bernhard had greeted him on his passage through Carinthia in Thörl-Maglern / Vrata Megvarje on May 1st, 1227 in Slovenian with the following words: "The prince and the journeymen sin / I am welcome sin. / Ir gruoz something against me alsus: / "buge waz primi, gralva Venus!" (The prince and his entourage welcomed me. Their greeting to me was like this: "Greetings from God, royal Venus). Ulrich had been disguised as Venus.
The border station of Thörl-Maglern was after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy occupied in November 1918 by Italian troops and up to 19 November 1924 kept busy, although the interstate border Regulatory Commission had awarded in 1921 the station of the Republic of Austria.
societies
- SV Thörl-Maglern
- FF Thörl-Maglern
- Mixed choir Thörl-Maglern
- Thörl-Maglern group of singers
- Country youth Thörl-Maglern
- Thörl-Maglern fraternity
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Thörl-Maglern on the website austria-Lexikon.at
- ↑ See: Reginald Vospernik, Pavle Zablatnik, Erik Prunč, Florjan Lipuš: The Slovenian word in Carinthia = Slovenska beseda na Koroškem, literature and poetry from the beginning to the present = Pismenstvo in slovstvo od začetkov do danes. ÖBV, Vienna 1985, pp. 22-23. ISBN 3-215-04304-1
- ^ Carlo Moos: South Tyrol in the St. Germain context . In: Georg Grote , Hannes Obermair (Ed.): A Land on the Threshold. South Tyrolean Transformations, 1915-2015 . Peter Lang, Oxford-Bern-New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-0343-2240-9 , pp. 27–39, here pp. 38–39 .