Zollfeld

The Customs field ( Slow Gosposvetsko polje ) is a fertile plain in Carinthia (southern Austria ). It is an extension of the Klagenfurt basin north of Klagenfurt and extends to Sankt Veit an der Glan, the former state capital. The Customs field is drained by the Glan and is one of the oldest cultural landscapes of Carinthia, it has long been a cultural and political center of the ancient Roman province of Noricum, dominated by the Alpine Slavs Principality Karantania and later in Carinthia.

In the southeast, the level is the village of Maria Saal, just to the north at the foot of Mount Magdalen located, there are still the ruins of Virunum, capital of the province of Noricum. The first known settlements date back to the Hallstatt period, such finds at Maria Saal Mountain show. Since then, the area was inhabited in every age. To a 830 Carolingian Palatinate at the foot of Mount Ulrich was built, today's Karnburg.

The name " Zollfeld " comes from the period around 976, when the Duchy of Carinthia gained independence after separation from the Duchy of Bavaria. From this period two important monuments are preserved, which played a role in the establishment of Duke of Carinthia. They are the Duke chair ( originally a grave stone of a resident of the old Roman Virunum ) and the Prince's Stone in Karnburg (now in large Wappensaal the country house in Klagenfurt).