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Sankt Veit an der Glan

St. Veit an der Glan is the name of both a municipality in Carinthia, Austria, and its largest village, the main town of the municipality.

The town was founded at the intersection of old traffic routes. It was the capital of Carinthia until 1518, and it is the seat of the district administration of the political district of St. Veit an der Glan.

Old town

    The old town with dimensions of about 380 × 200 m is surrounded by the largely preserved city wall. The houses in the old town have almost entirely medieval cores; many of the town houses around the two town squares have arcaded courtyards.
    The late Gothic town hall (a three-story, six-axis building with ogee arch portal, elaborately designed facade and arcaded courtyard), a plague column (1715/16) and two fountains (Vogelweide fountain and Schüssel fountain) are located on the main square, which measures about 200 by 30 meters.
    The Catholic parish church, first mentioned in a document in 1131, is a large chancel church, late Romanesque in its basic features and late Gothic in its present form. The present exterior dates back to a fundamental reconstruction after a fire in 1829. On the west wall there are several grave monuments from the 15th to the 18th century. The Karner St. Michael south of the parish church at the former cemetery is in its core a Romanesque round building of the 13th century (mentioned in documents in 1275 and 1359) and was formerly used as an ossuary. Since 1930 it has served as a war memorial.
    The so-called Herzogsburg, actually a former armory of the sovereign, is used for cultural events (concerts, vernissages, theater).