!!!Ferlach

Ferlach, Carinthia, town in the district of Klagenfurt, alt. 466 m, 
pop. 7,464, area 117.19 km%%sup 2/%, southernmost town in Austria, 
situated on the northern foot of the Karawanken mountain range in the 
Rosen valley. - District court, military training grounds and military 
shooting range (in Glainach), administrative centre for federal 
buildings, health and social insurance agency, Rosental youth centre 
for the province of Carinthia (in Goertschach), club aerodrome 
Glainach, vocational school of gunsmithing, technical college (weapons 
technology, tool and equipment manufacturing), Ferlach-Maria Rain 
river power plant of the Oesterreichische Draukraftwerke AG (built in 
1975, 330,000 kWh); the service sector predominates; in the last few 
years there has been a drastic reduction of employment in industry, 
but metal processing has remained significant: milling shop, precision 
tools and chain manufacturing, gunsmithing co-operative (consisting of 
numerous smaller gunsmithing shops), construction of waste water 
treatment plants, tourism (49,534 overnight stays). - First documented 
mention in 1246, long tradition of weapon making (dating back to the 
16%%sup th/%  century); modern parish church (1969/1970); Gothic 
parish church; gunsmithing museum. Located near the Tscheppa ravine.

!Literature
E. Baumgartner, Die Geschichte der Waffenerzeugung in 
Ferlach, doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 1953.


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