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Charnel House

The charnel house south of the parish church is a two-storey, circular Romanesque building of the 12^th or 13^th century.

In its basement, that is half buried in the ground and no longer accessible, skeletal remains taken from the graves were stored, while the upper floor was a chapel to remember the dead. The building stands in the middle of the former cemetery. Since 1930, it has been the war memorial of the town.

On the right hand side of the portal, a fragment of a Carolingian sculpted stone is part of the brickwork; this is probably the oldest stone monument in St. Veit an der Glan. Inside, a larger-than-life Late Gothic crucified Jesus can be seen; this is a masterpiece dating from around 1500.