!!!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. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Finkenstein_am_Faaker_See|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]