!!!Hohenburg

Hohenburg Castle Ruin, Carinthia, alt. 979 m, fortress ruins 
above the Lurnfeld region (municipality of Lurnfeld), with remains of 
a Romanesque keep, in the 11%%sup th/% /12%%sup th/%  centuries 
main castle of the Counts of Lurn. Tool finds from the Neolithic Age. 
Outside the fortress, Baroque Maria-Hohenburg pilgrimage church 
(15%%sup th/%  century, extended 1706) with Romanesque portal. 
Traditions: play ("Armensuenderspiel") at Passiontide.

!Literature
G. Moro, Zur Geschichte der Hohenburg, Carinthia I, 
1958.


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