!!!Gmünd, Kärnten

Gmuend, Carinthia, town in the district of Spittal an der Drau, alt. 
741 m, pop. 2,645, area 31.60 km%%sup 2/%, developed out of a 
settlement around a medieval castle (13%%sup th/%  century, chartered 
in 1292). Situated at the confluence of the Malta and the Lieser 
rivers, west of the Nockberge national park (founded in 1987, area 
184.3 km%%sup 2/%), alongside the road that crosses the Katschberg 
mountain (road dates back to the Romans). - Office of the forest 
guards, timber industry, food industry (spices), manufacturing of nets 
and knitwear, brickworks, production of building material, summer 
tourism (72,102 overnight stays), municipal museum, Museum of Porsche 
Automobiles (since 1982). - Commercial town during the 15%%sup th/%  
century, fortification walls from the 13%%sup th/%  century 
(Pankrazitor, Unteres Tor, Maltator), ancient castle (first 
documentary mention in 1252; ruin since 1886; Now, settled by artists, 
hosts a gallery), Neues Schloss Lodron, palace (1651-54; Now a 
school), Gothic parish church (14%%sup th/% /15%%sup th/%  centuries) 
with a high altar from 1722; round charnel house with wall paintings 
from the Gothic period (1370), calvary chapel (donated in 1629), 
square with town houses from the 16%%sup th/% , 17%%sup th/%  and 
18%%sup th/%  centuries, pillory (1576).

!Literature
H. P. Brigola, Gmuend in Kaernten. Geographie einer 
Kleinstadt, doctoral thesis, Graz 1977.


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