Maria Luggau#
Maria Luggau, Carinthia, village in the district of Hermagor, alt. 1,173 m, tourist resort (25,128 overnight stays) and place of pilgrimage situated in the Lesach Valley. With an average number of 35,000 to 40,000 pilgrims visiting Maria Luggau every year, the village ranks second in popularity in Carinthia just behind the market town of Maria Saal. Cadastral district of the municipality of Lesachtal. - Parish and pilgrimage church (built between 1520 and 1536, interior redesigned in Baroque style between 1733 and 1738), five-storey west tower with Baroque roof (1741), vault paintings (around 1740), high altar (1749), miraculous representation of the Virgin dating from 1513, altar mensae decorated with Late Gothic wooden reliefs, Late Gothic font; Franciscan monastery (1591); after the Franciscan monks left, Servites settled the region in 1635, monastery buildings burnt down in 1640; rebuilt on the old foundations from 1640-1661.