Seeboden

Seeboden
View from Millstätter See
Coat of arms
Seeboden Location within Austria
Coordinates: 46°49′N 13°31′E / 46.817°N 13.517°E / 46.817; 13.517Coordinates: 46°49′N 13°31′E / 46.817°N 13.517°E / 46.817; 13.517
Country	Austria
State	Carinthia
District	Spittal an der Drau
Government
• Mayor	Wolfgang Klinar (ÖVP)
Area
• Total	44.41 km2 (17.15 sq mi)
Elevation	618 m (2,028 ft)
Population (1 January 2016)
• Total	6,302
• Density	140/km2 (370/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	9871
Area code	04762
Website	www.seeboden.at

Seeboden am Millstätter See (Slovene: Jezernica ) is a market town in Spittal an der Drau District in Carinthia, Austria.

The municipal area stretches from the western shore of Millstätter See to the town boundary of the district capital Spittal an der Drau. In the north it reaches up to Mt. Tschiernock at 2,088 m (6,850 ft), part of the Millstätter Alpe crest in the Nock Mountains.

The municipal area consists of the four cadastral communities Lieseregg, Lieserhofen, Seeboden and Treffling. It comprises 22 villages and hamlets (population in 2001 in parentheses):

Seeboden proper is a dispersed settlement area that grew together from the former villages of Gritschach, Kraut, Reich, and Wirlsdorf.

Several prehistoric excavation finds denote a continuous settlement on the western bight of Millstätter See at least since the Neolithic. In the Hallstatt culture, Celtic tribes settled along the nearby Drava Valley, their kingdom Noricum became a Roman province under Emperor Augustus in 15 BC. The area was located near a Roman road (Via Iulia Augusta) from Aquileia to the local capital Teurnia, where a northern branch-off across the Radstädter Tauern Pass led to Iuvavum (present-day Salzburg). From the 6th century onwards Slavic tribes moved into the region, shown by numerous place names. Their Principality of Carantania became a Bavarian frontier march in the mid 8th century and part of the Frankish Empire under Charlemagne.