!!!Feldkirchen in Kärnten Feldkirchen, Carinthia, town in the district of Feldkirchen, alt. 557 m, pop. 12,977, area 77.49 km%%sup 2/%, tourism (271,231 overnight stays), business centre and traffic junction in the Tiebelbach valley northwest of Lake Ossiach. - Seat of the district of Feldkirchen, district court, district police headquarters, Employment Services, Chamber of Labour, Economic Chamber, Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry, continuing education centre (BFI), regional health insurance agency, Protestant welfare and social works and hospital (Waiern), social advisory centre for pedagogical-psychological services, Antonius House of the Nuns of the Cross, continuing education centre (WIFI), schools include Realgymnasium and Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium secondary schools and a commercial academy, a commercial vocational school and a school for health workers; air field (Rabensdorf), cattle auction house. Employment: 5,010 persons (1991), of which half are employed in the production and service sectors (in particular private, social and public services, trade); shoe, linen, corrugated cardboard and packaging materials plants, turbine and electric plant construction works, steel production, production of type-writer ribbons and diskettes, carbonated beverages, chemical plant, manufacturing of wood products (saw mills, pre-fabricated wooden house components etc.), transportation. \\ First documented mention in 888, in 1176 belonged to the bishopric of Bamberg, hammer mills have existed here since the 17%%sup th/% century, under the authority of the local sovereign after 1759, city charter in 1930; late Romanesque-Gothic town parish church with a nave and two aisles with wall-paintings (13%%sup th/% -14%%sup th/% centuries) and Gothic winged altar (1515), crypt (13%%sup th/% century); Michaelskirche church (14%%sup th/% century, Baroque alterations in the 18%%sup th/% century); Amthof Castle (known as the Bamberg city castle residence, today a cultural centre and museum, 15%%sup th/% - 16%%sup th/% century); citizens' hospital (18%%sup th/% century); Biedermeier houses, water fountain (17%%sup th/% century) and Baroque column dedicated to the Virgin Mary (1760) in the main town square. Renaissance Gradisch Castle; church in Glanhofen (frescoes dating from around 1340, 1500); church in Hart ob Glanegg (wall-paintings, 1410-1420), fortified St. Nikolai Church (wall-paintings 14%%sup th/% century); fortified St. Ulrich Church (wall-paintings around 1500); late Gothic St. Urban church. Nearby are Dietrichstein Castle (16%%sup th/% century, first documented mention in 1136) in the Glan valley, as well as Lakes Dietrichstein, Maltschach and Flatschach. !Literature W. Putzinger, Feldkirchen in Kaernten, 1980. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Feldkirchen_in_Kärnten|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]