!!!Lavamünd

Lavamuend, Carinthia, market town in the district of Wolfsberg, alt. 
348 m, pop. 3,818, area 93.79 km%%sup 2/%, at the confluence 
of River Lavant and River Drau/Drava, close to the border with 
Slovenia. - Customs office, Leifling border crossing point, customs 
post, road maintenance depot. The run-of-river power stations 
Schwabeck (built in 1942, 72 MW) and Lavamuend (built in 1944, 
28 MW), which are operated by Oesterreichische Draukraftwerke AG, 
are partly situated in the municipality of Neuhaus; Koralpe storage 
power station of the KELAG company (built in 1990, 50 MW); the 
power stations and the road maintenance depot are the most important 
employers in the area; sawmill; some summer tourism. - First 
documentary mention in 1091; Gothic parish church outside the market 
town (15%%sup th/%  century, choir 14%%sup th/%  century) with a late 
Gothic west tower, remains of stained-glass windows (14%%sup th/%  
century), Baroque interior (18%%sup th/%  century); narrow square, 
2-storey houses with renovated façades; market church (first 
documentary mention in 1619, modern church building from the 
2%%sup nd/%  half of the 18%%sup th/%  century); Baroque Calvary 
church (1690, enlarged around 1725).


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