!!!Griffen

Griffen, Carinthia, market town in the district of Voelkermarkt, alt. 
484 m, pop. 3,707, area 74.75 km%%sup 2/%, old fortified 
town between the Drau and the Lavant Valleys, north-east of 
Voelkermarkt. - Construction of prefab houses, shoes and powder-coated 
parts for the electronics industry, machine construction and moulding 
(tubes); manufacture of black porcelain souvenirs. - First documented 
in 822; castle ruin (before 1148-1759 property of the diocese of 
Bamberg); parish church (built in 1863), frescoes (2%%sup nd/%  half 
of the 19%%sup th/%  century), high altar (1911); former 
Praemonstratensian monastery (1236-1786) with Gothic fortified 
churchyard walls and red sandstone relief (13%%sup th/%  century) in 
the cloister; parish church in Haslach (former collegiate church, 
mentioned in 1272), originally late Romanesque, some Baroque 
alterations, high altar (1776) and late Gothic stone Madonna (1520); 
Romanesque parish church (before 1250, Gothic alterations) with late 
Romanesque remains of frescoes. Fortified churches in Pustritz 
(1430-1500), Tschrietes (Gothic-Baroque), St. Leonhard (end of 
the 15%%sup th/%  century), Woelfnitz (Romanesque-Gothic); late Gothic 
Maria Feicht church with Roman tomb relief. Numerous animal-bone 
fossils and some Stone-Age tools found in the cave on the castle hill. 
Lake Griffen nearby.

!Literature
G. Koerner, Griffen im Spiegel seiner Vergangenheit, 1969; 
G. Kollmann, Laendliche Kommunalpolitik am Beispiel des Gemeinderates 
von Griffen in Kaernten, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1992.


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