Molzbichl#

Molzbichl, Carinthia, village in the district of Spittal an der Drau, alt. 532 m, in the Unterdrautal valley, near Lake Millstatt, cadastral district of the municipality of Spittal an der Drau. - Parish church of St. Tiburtius (first documented mention around 1063) with Romanesque apse, archaeological evidence of an abbey, 8th to 10th centuries, fragments of Carolingian wattlework; nave restored in 1801. Two-stored altar with figural ornamentation; an inscription on plague in the mensa of the high altar gives 532 as the date of death and burial of a deacon called Nonnosus, only inscription in Austria from that time, today part of the new altar facing the congregation. Church and cemetery surrounded by a defensive wall. Finds exhibited in the Museum Carantana.

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