!!!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, 
8%%sup th/%  to 10%%sup th/%  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.

!Literature
K. Karpf, Zur Geschichte der Pfarre Molzbichl: von den 
Anfaengen bis zur josephinischen Pfarregulierung, doctoral thesis, 
Innsbruck 1988; F. Glaser, Das Muenster in Molzbichl, das aelteste 
Kloster Kaerntens, 1989; idem and K. Karpf, Ein karolingisches 
Kloster, 1989.


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