!!!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.


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