TU Graz

Information:

This is an old - not maintained - article of the AEIOU.

In the Austria-Forum you find an updated version of this article in the new AEIOU.

https://austria-forum.org Imprint

bm:bwk
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
home austria albums search annotate deutsch
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Fuhrmann, Ernst - Furth bei Göttweig (22/25)
Fürstenspiegel Fürsttheater,

Fürstenstein


Fürstenstein ("Prince's Stone"), Roman ionic column fragment with its base-side up in which the coat of arms of the province of Carinthia was cut in the Middle Ages. Served as a throne on the occasion of the Ducal Coronation. The Fürstenstein, the oldest extant symbol of a sovereign existing on Austrian soil, stood near the parish church of Karnburg at the foot of Ulrichsberg mountain, is  in the ownership of the Provincial Museum of Carinthia (Landesmuseum) and exhibeted in the Great Wappensaal of the Landhaus (provicial government) in Klagenfurt.


Literature: H. Wolfram and G. Langthaler, Botschaften aus dem Meer ob der Enns, 1984.


 
User Guide Abbreviations
 
© Copyright Encyclopedia of Austria

 

Search for links to this page
 
help aeiou project of the bm:bwk copyrights e-mail