!!!Finkenstein am Faaker See

Finkenstein, Carinthia, market town in the district of Villach, alt. 
662 m, pop. 7,655, area 101.96 km%%sup 2/%, with several cadastral 
communities (especially  Faak am See, alt. 566 m) summer tourism 
centre (899,650 overnight stays) situated southwest of Lake Faaker See 
at the foot of the Karawanken mountains. - Faak am See Federal Sport 
and Recreation Centre, summer luge run, golf course. Sawmill, 
manufacturing of skis and sports equipment, pasta, construction 
materials, prefabricated cement components; large-scale transport 
firm, insulation materials trade. The open-air arena hosts many 
popular open-air concerts. - Gothic subsidiary church with wall 
paintings (around 1480), fortress ruins (first documented mention in 
1142) with a keep at Alt-Finkenstein, Neu-Finkenstein palace 
(1794/1795). Faak subsidiary church (15%%sup th/%  century) with wall 
paintings, church in Geritschach with winged altar (1517), church on 
the Kanzian mountain around 1480 (archeological finds  Kanzianiberg); 
parish church in Latschach (1752-1756); parish church in Petschnitzen 
with wall paintings (1504); parish church of St. Stephan built in 
1472, subsidiary church of St. Jacob.

!Literature
G. Urschitz, Finkenstein, Strukturwandel einer Kaerntner 
Gemeinde, master's thesis, Graz 1987.


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