!!!Ulrichsberg

Ulrichsberg Mountain, Carinthia, 1,015 m, isolated mountain at 
the western edge of the Zollfeld plain, north of Klagenfurt; 
documented mention as Mons Carantanus in the Middle Ages, as 
"Kernberg" ("Carinthian Mountain") in 1485. Scattered 
prehistoric finds. The summit was probably the site of a temple 
(1%%sup st/%  century A.D.) of Isis-Noreia. Location of extensive 
hilltop settlement with early Christian church during Late Antiquity 
(5%%sup th/% /6%%sup th/%  century); destroyed by Slavs around 
600. Finds: remains of antique temple, early Christian church and late 
Roman buildings; statuette of Apollo (today in the Kunsthistorisches 
Museum in Vienna), inscription dedicated to Isis-Noreia in the ruins 
of the medieval church; small finds in the Carinthian provincial 
museum in Klagenfurt. Ulrichsberg Mountain is one of the stations of 
the  Vierberge-Wallfahrt (Four-Mountain Pilgrimage).

!Literature
H. Kerschbaum, Der Ulrichsberg, 1934; R. Egger, Der 
Ulrichsberg, 1949; H. Gerndt, Vierbergelauf, 1973.


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