!!!Fürstenstein

Fuerstenstein ("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 Fuerstenstein, the oldest extant symbol of a 
sovereign existing on Austrian soil, stood near the parish church of 
Karnburg at the foot of Ulrichsberg mountain and is now in the 
Great Hall of the Provincial Parlament in Klagenfurt.

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



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