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The origins of the town

According to legend, Saint Vitus from Sicily, the patron saint who gave the town its name, is said to have died a martyr’s death together with his tutor Modestus and his nurse Crescentia under Emperor Diocletian in Rome. One of his attributes, the cauldron of oil, is used in St. Veit’s coat of arms.

In the absence of reliable sources there is only speculation about the origins of the town of St. Veit. Witness to a settlement of the area around St. Veit in the early Middle Ages is the fragment of a Carolingian ornament stone in the exterior wall of the charnel house, which belongs to the remains of a building from the early Middle Ages whose exact location is unknown. A legend serves to compensate for the lack of sources: about the battle against the Hungarians in the year 901, which brought about the founding of the town.