Wir freuen uns über jede Rückmeldung. Ihre Botschaft geht vollkommen anonym nur an das Administrator Team. Danke fürs Mitmachen, das zur Verbesserung des Systems oder der Inhalte beitragen kann. ACHTUNG: Wir können an Sie nur eine Antwort senden, wenn Sie ihre Mail Adresse mitschicken, die wir sonst nicht kennen!
unbekannter Gast
Anzeigen

Arnoldstein#

Arnoldstein, Carinthia, market town (status conferred in 1922) in the district of Villach-Land, alt. 578 m, pop. 6,691, area 67.29 km2, border town with focus on trades in the lower Gail Valley on the Villach- Tarvisio railway line (built 1873); the border station Thoerl-Maglern is a part of Arnoldstein - Border crossing (customs office), Schuett-Neuhaus run-of-river power plant (built 1961; 64,000 Mwh), Dreilaendereck mountain cableway (Seltschacher Alpe, alt. 1,469 m); traffic and transport trade (forwarding agents, lorry freight lines to Italy), industrial park (businesses are successors to the Bleiberger Bergwerksunion mining company) and timber industry (sawmills), textile factory, also tourism (51,866 overnight stays, Dreilaendereck region). - Gothic parish church (15th century); crucifix chapel (1529) built over a brook; ruins of a Benedictine monastery (founded 1107, closed 1782, fire in 1883). Schuett Nature Reserve is located to the north of Arnoldstein.

Further reading#

H. Wurzer, Die Marktgemeinde Arnoldstein als Teil der "Dreilaender-Grenzregion", master's thesis, Klagenfurt 1990.

Back to the Austrian Version