!!!Heiligenblut

Heiligenblut, Carinthia, municipality in the district of Spittal an 
der Drau, alt. 1,288 m, pop. 1,259, area 193.50 km%%sup 2/%, 
bi-seasonal tourism (298,125 overnight stays), situated in the 
high-Alpine region of the upper-most Moelltal, at the foot of the 
Grossglockner mountain, in the "Hohe Tauern" national park. - Southern 
starting point of the Grossglockner-Hochalpenstrasse (management 
headquarters), Moell power station (16 million kW), small power 
stations Fleiss I and II, Heiligenblut-Rossbach-Schareck cable 
car (2,606 m), tunnel railway to the Fleissalm mountain area 
(alt. 1,798 m); the construction is unique in Europe, since the 
1.6 km long tunnel is filled with water during summer but serves 
as a railway tunnel leading to the Fleissalm winter sports region in 
winter. - Gothic pilgrimage church (1460-91), tower with needle spire, 
relic of the Holy Blood in the sacrament house (1496), late-Gothic 
winged altarpiece (1520), crypt with tomb and altar of the Blessed 
Brictius; open-air museum; in Apriach, Stockmuehlen mills with 9 flume 
mills; west of Heiligenblut Lake Kachelsee, Goessnitz waterfalls, 
Leiter waterfalls, Margaritzen reservoir (2,000 m) and Lake 
Sandersee; in the vicinity, Pockhorn late-Gothic subsidiary church, 
pilgrimage village of Zlapp and farm building with neo-Gothic Mary of 
Lourdes chapel, Moell waterfalls close by; Kirchheimeck ruins 
(municipality of Grosskirchheim).

!Literature
J. Kaufmann, Oertliche Entwicklung und Ortsbild der 
Gemeinde Heiligenblut am Grossglockner, master´s thesis, Vienna 
1984.


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