Municipality in Carinthia, Austria
Irschen is a municipality in the district of Spittal an der Drau in the Austrian state of Carinthia .
Geography
It consists of the Katastralgemeinden Drava Valley, near the B 100 Drautal Straße highway and the Drautalbahn railway line.
Panorama near Potschling, panorama View to Gröfelhof
History
A settlement area since the Early Iron Age (Hallstatt Culture ), Irschen may be identical to the Idunum polis in the former Celtic kingdom of Noricum , as mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia . In Roman times a mansio laid on the road leading over the Gailbergsattel mountain pass to Italia . Ursus I, Patriarch of Aquileia probably built the first church about 810 in the place then called Ursen , which was mentioned as Castrum Ursen in a 1086 deed. In medieval times Irschen was a mining area, especially for gold .
It was recently revealed that the English actress Billie Piper has a home in this region.
References
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