!!!Treffen Treffen, Carinthia, market town in the district of Villach-Land, alt. 542 m, pop. 4,311, area 71.04 km%%sup 2/%, summer tourist resort (452,938 overnight stays) situated on the Treffner Bach stream to the north of Villach close to Lake Ossiach and Kanzelhoehe mountain (1,524 m; observatory of the University of Graz). - Protestant foundation with special hospital and homes for disabled children and adults, leisure centre, Catholic St. Antonius children´s home, doll museum, museum of local alpine culture; Poellingerhuette mountain refuge, Kanzelbahn cableway (from Annenheim); production of plastic windows and filters, saw mills. - Documented mention as the donation of one "curtis ad Trebinam" to the Bavarian monastery of Oetting in 860. Parish church (originally a fortified church, documented mention between 878 and 906) with Romanesque tower and round-arched windows, Gothic choir and Baroque additions, altered in 1812, Gothic west portal, frescoes (1637 and 1495), fine early Classicist oil paintings, Roman relief stone; palace (1691): built in Italian style with a large hall and on each upper floor one smaller hall with stucco ceiling (around 1700); Romanesque-Gothic Alt-Treffen castle ruins. !Literature K. Dinklage, Geschichte von Treffen, 1970. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Treffen_am_Ossiacher_See|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]