Kötschach-Mauthen#

Koetschach-Mauthen, Carinthia, market town in the district of Hermagor, alt. 705 m, pop. 3,673, area 154.55 km2, summer resort (163,352 overnight stays), situated in the Gail Valley southwest of the Jauken mountains (peak: Jaukenhoehe, 2,234 m); cadastral district of Koetschach, situated north of the River Gail and south of Mauthen, united with Mauthen since 1958.- Ploeckenpass customs office, office of the customs police, forest supervision office, branch of the youth office, Laas hospital and sanatorium, production of heat exchangers, wood processing (sawmills, joiner's and carpenter's shops), building industry, pump station and tank farm of the Adria-Wien-Pipeline, electric generating station (private).- Rock engravings (people's names) in the northern Etruscan alphabet, found on the Wuernlacher Alpe mountain, today exhibited in the provincial museum in Klagenfurt; during Roman times there was a road station called "Loncium" in the area of today's Mauthen, in the Middle Ages Mauthen was an important toll station on the route across the Ploeckenpass (mountain pass); in Koetschach Late Gothic hall church (1518-1527) with a square entrance tower and a richly moulded western portal, Gothic and Rococo frescoes, Classicist high altar (1833); Servite monastery (1715); Mandorf Palace (1520) situated in Mandorf, with a small settlement belonging to Koetschach-Mauthen; in Mauthen, is a Romanesque-Gothic parish church with a Baroque gallery and Baroque aisles, fresco cycle on the exterior wall; subsidiary church in Laas (1510-1535); church in Podlanig (1521) with wall paintings; pilgrimage church of Maria Schnee (1710-1712); house facades from the 18th and 19th centuries; open-air museum, Ploecken museum; during World War I the front was in the mountains near K.-M.