!!!Hermagor-Pressegger See

Hermagor-Pressegg, Lake, Carinthia, town in the district of Hermagor, 
alt. 602 m, pop. 7,403, area 204.35 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal 
tourism (1,041,290 overnight stays), situated in the lower Gail 
valley, at the entry of the Gitschtal valley, close to the Italian 
border, central town of the Gail valley; east of Hermagor lies Lake 
Pressegg, Carinthia´s warmest bathing lake (28° C). - 
District Commission, district court, rural police headquarters, 
employment services, traffic licensing office, water management 
office, customs authority department, Chamber of Labour, Economic 
Chamber, Chamber of Agriculture, local health and social insurance 
office, finance chamber of the Diocese of Gurk, Gailtal clinic, public 
psychiatric hospital, Foerolach power station of the Treibacher 
Industrie AG; schools: Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium (upper-level 
federal mathematics-oriented secondary school), Berufsschule 
(vocational school), Fachschule fuer wirtschaftliche Berufe 
(commercial college), secondary school of commerce and trade, 
vocational training institute. High-level service sector (about 
64 % of all 2,709 employed persons 1991): mainly personal, social 
and public services, hotel industry, trade; manufacturing industry: 
deep freezers, textile industry (fabrics, traditional Dirndl dresses), 
wood-working industry (bonded-wood construction, furniture), 
manufacture of backpacks and bags, metal-working industry. - First 
documented mention 1169, granted town status in 1930; late-Gothic 
parish church (around 1485) with late-Gothic murals and winged 
altarpiece (around 1500), late-Baroque high altar (mid-18%%sup th/% 
 century); Protestant church (1926). Gothic parish church of 
Mellweg, Baroque parish church of Mitschig (around 1770), Moederndorf 
subsidiary church (1483) with fresco of St. Christopher (around 1525) 
and 2 winged altars (1510-1520). Gail Valley museum of local history 
and culture in Moederndorf Castle. Malenthein and Khuenburg ruins 
(documented 1189, in ruins since 16%%sup th/%  century) with 
Romanesque keep. In the village of Egg, late-Gothic parish church 
(15%%sup th/%  century) with stained glass windows (1490); Kuehnegg 
Castle. At Untervellach, late-Gothic subsidiary church (documented 
1331, choir 1502) with late-Gothic winged altar (early 16%%sup th/%  
century), Baroque high altar (1652) and traditional murals 
(1613-1614).

!Literature
G. Moro, Hermagor, Geschichte, Natur, Gegenwart, 1969; H. 
Pietschnigg, Alt-Hermagor, 1931, 1980; Kulturamt der Stadtgemeinde 
Hermagor-Pressegger See (ed.), 60 Jahre Hermagor. 1930-90, 1990.


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