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First settlement traces on the Holzer mountain in St. Peter in Holz come from the 11th century BC. For a going on settlement speak finds from the years 750 BC and 500 to 350 BC.
In the 3rd century the immigrated Celts settled on the hill. After the Roman occupation of Noricum in the year 15 BC was proclaimed around AD 45 the province Noricum. Teurnia received the freedom of the city with the elevation to a Municipium.
The town was extended. At the eastern foot of the hill two terraces for the residential area were constructed. On the hill were built the forum, the public bath and the temples.
Also Teurnia endured probably under the numerous German raids from the 3rd century AD.
At the latest in the middle of the 5th century AD the province capital was moved from Virunum to Teurnia.
From the 4th to the 5th century another townscape showed. The living-terraces were not used anymore. The hill peak was inhabited again.
Teurnia was named now Tiburnia. On the hill was built around AD 430 a bishop church. After a fire in the 6th century the church was enlarged. Around AD 600 it was destroyed by fire during the immigration of the Slavs. From the time of the Slav settlement aren't any finds known.
Today only still few remains point to the former town. The walls of a late-antique house are on the hill. Next to that are the remains of a preceding house from the second half of the 1st century AD to see. Because of different outlines a certain space of time was between these two houses.
The mentioned bishop church is to be seen in a
protection building. A tower of the western gate of the town wall is next to that.
It comes from the 5th/6th century AD. The foundations of the northern wall are visible to the part in the forest.
Down in the valley
the remains of the so-called cemetery church are
to see. It is a question of a memorial church from the middle or second half of the 5th century
AD. A still visible mosaic was in the layman room.