!!!Viktring

Viktring, Carinthia, district, alt. 454 m, 13%%sup th/%  district 
and cadastral municipality of Klagenfurt, residential area in the 
south of Klagenfurt, at the foot of Goritschnig mountain (683 m), 
incorporated within the boundaries of the town in 1973. - Gymnasium 
secondary school (in the former abbey), multipurpose sports hall, 
municipal centre; printing office, mill, sports articles production, 
technology park with small enterprises. - Documented 890-982 under the 
name of Vitrino (Celtic = billet field), later as Vitring. 
Important former Cistercian abbey founded in 1142 by Bernhard of 
Sponheim, consecrated in 1202, closed in 1786, one of the wealthiest 
abbeys in Carinthia in the Middle Ages, its best-known abbot,  Johann 
of Viktring, is regarded as one of the major medieval historians; 
Romanesque abbey church (today the parish church) built on the model 
of Burgundian churches, the only example of its kind east of the River 
Rhine; the nave was shortened by half its length in 1847; parts of the 
abbey church altered during the late Gothic period, the south portal 
is Romanesque, Gothic stained glass panels in the windows at the 
eastern end of the chancel (around 1400), early Baroque high altar 
(1622, one of the biggest in Carinthia); parts of the cloister 
preserved in the former abbey buildings, 2 arcaded courts and large 
banqueting hall (1%%sup st/%  third of the 18%%sup th/%  century); 
late Gothic prelacy (today presbytery); late Gothic baptistery (around 
1500); St. Bernhard chapel with marble altar (1710); abbey complex 
surrounded by a wide moat. The district of Viktring includes the 
settlement of Stein (Baroque parish church from 1778).

!Literature
K. Ginhart, Viktring, 1962; O. Reisinger, Aus Viktrings 
Vergangenheit, 1972; H. Findenig, Stift Viktring 1142-1992, 1992.


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