!!!Eberndorf

Eberndorf, Carinthia, market town in the district of Voelkermarkt, 
alt. 476 m, pop. 5,922, area 67.67 km%%sup 2/%, summer 
resort (161,175 overnight stays) and main village in Jauntal valley, 
southeast of Lake Klopein. - holiday home, professional school for 
rural home economics (Fachschule fuer laendliche Hauswirtschaft); 
large tourist industry, therefore dominant service sector (59 % 
of the workforce employed in the service sector in 1991); industries 
include fibre board production ( Funder Industrie GmbH), textile 
machinery and traditional costumes; pipe manifold production. - First 
documented mention as "Dobrendorf" in 1106. Former Augustinian 
monastery (1149/54-1604, since 1809 owned by the Benedictines of St. 
Paul, today used for cultural events and administration offices); the 
late Gothic collegiate church (parish church) with its free standing 
tower (15%%sup th/%  century) comprises a crypt (around 1390), 
frescoes (15%%sup th/%  century) and Baroque high altars; on 
Holmberg mountain late Gothic cemetery church with carved high altar 
(1780) and pedestal statues (17%%sup th/%  century). - Nearby are 
Lake Klopein, Lake Goesselsdorfersee, Lake Sonnegg and Lake Turnersee 
as well as the Edling run-of-river power station run by the Drau Power 
Station Company (built in 1962, 405,000 kWh; jointly owned by the 
municipalities Eberndorf and Voelkermarkt).

!Literature
M. Siedler, Marktgemeinde Eberndorf einst und heute, 1992.


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