page_title: Deutsch-Griffen
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Deutsch-Griffen / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Interior of the parish church Saint James the Greater in Deutsch-Griffen, municipality Deutsch-Griffen, district Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia, Austria, EU Deutsch: Inneres der Pfarrkirche Heiliger Jakob der Ältere in Deutsch-Griffen, Gemeinde Deutsch-Griffen, Bezirk Sankt Veit an der Glan, Kärnten, Österreich, EU &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 61494 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata)
context_page_description: Deutsch-Griffen is a municipality in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Austrian state of Carinthia.
context_section_description: A locality in the March of Carinthia named Grivinne was already mentioned in a 927 deed. In 1043 Countess Hemma of Gurk donated a chapel at the site, the present-day St. Jacob parish church which passed to the Diocese of Gurk in 1157. The Romanesque structure was rebuilt as a fortified church in the 15th century, when it served as a refuge for the villagers during the Ottoman Wars.
  The present-day municipality emerged in 1850. it was later called Deutsch-Griffen to distinguish it from Griffen in Völkermarkt District. In a 1973 administrative reform it was merged into a large municipality with neighbouring  Glödnitz and Weitensfeld but regained its independency after a local referendum in 1991.
caption: Church interior
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