!!!Kirchbach

Kirchbach, Carinthia, market town in the district of Hermagor, alt. 
642 m, pop. 2,850, area 98.99 km%%sup 2/%, summer resort 
(81,218 overnight stays) situated in the upper Gail Valley. - Small 
power station (KELAG) in the Kirchbach-Graben; Kirchbach produces 
parts for cooling devices and has some woodworking industry. - Parish 
church built in1508, Baroque alterations in 1718, with late Baroque 
ceiling frescoes and a Gothic baptismal font, altar pieces designed 
around 1700; cemetery portal with Gothic frescoes; Grafendorf parish 
church built in Romanesque and Gothic styles with Baroque additions, 
wall paintings from 1514; subsidiary church on Wieserberg hill, 
Romanesque building with frescoes (early 13%%sup th/%  century); 
waterfall in the Kirchbach-Graben.


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