Möllbrücke

Lurnfeld
View across the Lurnfeld valley
Coat of arms
Lurnfeld Location within Austria
Coordinates: 46°50′N 13°22′E / 46.833°N 13.367°E / 46.833; 13.367Coordinates: 46°50′N 13°22′E / 46.833°N 13.367°E / 46.833; 13.367
Country	Austria
State	Carinthia
District	Spittal an der Drau
Government
• Mayor	Rudolf Hartlieb (FPK)
Area
• Total	33.02 km2 (12.75 sq mi)
Elevation	557 m (1,827 ft)
Population (1 January 2016)
• Total	2,575
• Density	78/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	9813
Area code	04769
Website	www.lurnfeld.at

Lurnfeld is a market town in the district of Spittal an der Drau in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The municipality consists of the two Katastralgemeinden: Möllbrücke and Pusarnitz, comprising several small villages.

It is located within the eponymous valley of the Drava river, on the southern slope of the Ankogel Group of the Hohe Tauern range, west of the district's capital Spittal an der Drau. At Möllbrücke is the confluence of the Drava with the Möll tributary. In the west the valley is confined by the mountains of the Kreuzeck group and in the south by the Gailtal Alps.

The Lurnfeld valley around the Roman city of Teurnia is a very old settlement area, in ancient times called vallis Lurna. In an 891 deed mentioned as Liburnia, it became the centre of the Upper Carinthian counts in the mediæval Lurngau, who resided at Hohenburg Castle. Their dominions then stretched from west of Villach up the Drava to Lienz and the Tyrolean border.

Pusarnitz already appeared in a 1072 deed. After the Counts of Lurn became extinct in 1135, it was among the Carinthian possessions of the Salzburg archbishops. The remaining estates were inherited by the Counts of Ortenburg, while the Tyrolean Meinhardiner dynasty, Counts of Görz since 1127, expanded their possessions in the west. The main village Möllbrücke was first mentioned as mölnprukke in 1253. In 1307 it was denoted as a possession of the Meinhardiner counts of Görz and seat of a county court.