!!!Kötschach-Mauthen

Koetschach-Mauthen, Carinthia, market town in the district of 
Hermagor, alt. 705 m, pop. 3,673, area 154.55 km%%sup 2/%, 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 
18%%sup th/%  and 19%%sup th/%  centuries; open-air museum, Ploecken 
museum; during World War I the front was in the mountains near K.-M.


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