!!!Bad Kleinkirchheim

Bad Kleinkirchheim, Carinthia, municipality in the district of Spittal 
an der Drau, alt. 1,087 m, pop. 1,889, area 73.99 km%%sup 2/%, 
climatic health and winter resort; spa at the foot of the Nockberge 
Mountains between Lake Millstatt and Turracher Hoehe Pass. Therapy 
centre with thermal indoor pool (hot mineral spring with a low content 
of minerals carried in solution, 22.5° C), Roemerbad spa, 
golf-course, cable railways; tourism (1,006,393 overnight stays), wood 
working, late Gothic pilgrimage church of St. Katharina (around 
1492) with Gothic winged altar-piece (1510) built above a medical 
spring (catchment in crypt), Gothic and Baroque parish church 
(recorded 1166, renovated 1734) with monumental painting. In 
St. Oswald (town in the municipality): late Gothic church (around 
1510) with frescoes (1514) above the portal and various old Carinthian 
Ringhof farmsteads.

!Literature
W. Binder, Bad Kleinkirchheim in den Gurktaler Alpen, 
doctoral thesis, Graz 1971; M. Maierbrugger, Kurgemeinde Bad 
Kleinkirchheim, %%sup 3/%1998.


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