Theme Week Carinthia – Sankt Veit an der Glan
Friday, 26 December 2014 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General
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Sankt Veit an der Glan is a town and the administrative centre of the
Sankt Veit an der Glan District , with a population of about 12,500. It was the historic Carinthian capital until 1518.
The town is situated in the valley of the Glan River within the Gurktal Alps . Here the Glan reaches the Central Carinthian Zollfeld plain and flows southwards to Maria Saal and the state capital Klagenfurt .
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Already in 1149 it served as a residence of the
Sponheim Duke Henry V of Carinthia , where he received
King Conrad III of Germany on his way back from the
Second Crusade . He was succeeded by his brother
Duke Hermann II of Carinthia , who became Vogt protector of the church in 1176 and subsequently the Sponheimer made the estates of Sankt Veit their permanent residence and capital of the Carinthian duchy, which it remained until 1518. Herman’s son
Bernhard von Spanheim (d. 1256) had the ducal castle and fortifications built, and granted Sankt Veit town privileges 1224. Here he held a glamorous court and received
minnesingers like
Walther von der Vogelweide , who stayed here in 1214, and
Ulrich von Liechtenstein . Sankt Veit also may have been the domicile of Heinrich von dem Türlin where he wrote his Middle High German
Diu Crône poem.
After the House of Sponheim had become extinct in 1269, the Carinthian duchy was acquired by
King Ottokar II of Bohemia , later it passed to the
Meinhardiner Count Meinhard II of Tyrol . His granddaughter
Countess Margaret in 1335 finally lost Carinthia to
Duke Rudolf IV of Austria from the
House of Habsburg , whereafter it was incorporated into the dynasty’s
Inner Austrian lands and ruled by
stadtholders . In 1362 Rudolf granted the Sankt Veit citizens the permission to hold the annual
Wiesenmarkt fair , which is arranged up to today as one of the oldest festivals in Central Europe. Its town hall dates from 1468 and the present-day ducal castle from the 15th to 16th century.
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