Dukes Chair

The Duke's Chair, additionally called the Duke's Seat is a medieval stone seat dating from the 9th century and located at the Zollfeld simple close to Maria Saal north of Klagenfurt within the Austrian state of Carinthia. The Duke's Chair, made specially of Roman gravestones from close by Virunum without a doubt consists of two stone seats, whose backrests are attached to each other.

The large seat, dealing with to the east, turned into reserved for the Dukes, the alternative one, slightly older and facing to the west, for the Counts palatine of the Meinhardiner dynasty. Together with the Prince's Stone, it performed an essential role for the duration of the set up of the Dukes of Carinthia in a Ceremony that may date back to the Early Medieval principality of Carantania. The chair become first cited as sedes Karinthani ducatus at the event of the set up of Duke Herman II of Spanheim in 1161. Here the newly hooked up duke needed to swear an oath in German and received the homage of the estates.