!!!Deutsch-Griffen

Deutsch-Griffen, Carinthia, municipality in the district of St. Veit 
an der Glan, alt. 847 m, pop. 1,105, area 71.44 km%%sup 2/%, 
summer holiday resort in a side valley (Griffenbach stream) of the 
Gurk Valley at the bottom of the Gurktal Alps. The parish church 
(first documented in 1157) with Romanesque nave, Gothic choir, 
frescoes from the mid-15%%sup th/%  century, and the Early Gothic 
charnel house are surrounded by a 3.80 m-high late Gothic 
fortified wall.


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