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Gemeinde Sankt Urban

Sankt Urban is a municipality in the district of Feldkirchen in Carinthia. Sankt Urban is located in the Gurktaler Alps in northern central Carinthia, about 10 km northeast of Feldkirchen. The municipality lies on the St. Urban lake.

Culture and sights

    Parish Church of St. Urban, baroqueized late Gothic church building, first mentioned in documents in 1164, rebuilt and expanded in the first quarter of the 16th century, restored in 1957. The choir and choir tower date back to the 14th century.
    Filial church Kleingradenegg
    Filial church Hoch St. Paul
    Bach Castle, a Renaissance building with a shingle roof from the first half of the 16th century, is located on a slope north of Lake St. Urban.
    On the territory of the village there are also remains of the Hafnerburg.
    A Mithras cult site is located in a natural rock cave on the south side of the Brocken Wall, above Lake Urban. On the east side, a simple image of the sun god Mithras is carved into the rock.

Dobra Moor

Dobra Moor (other names are Jakobimoor or Freundsamer Moos) is located at an altitude of 902 m above sea level. Surrounded by rolling hills and mountains, such as Gößeberg, Paulsberg and Illmitzer Wald, it is the habitat for a rich flora typical of moors. This bog is also home to the Nordic birch, a remnant of the Ice Age, and was discovered in Carinthia only in 1922.