Maria Wörth#

Maria Woerth, Carinthia, municipality in the district of Klagenfurt Land, alt. 450 m, pop. 1,067, area 17.39 km2, summer resort (332,367 overnight stays), situated on a small peninsula on the southern side of Lake Woerther See; landing stage for ships cruising the lake. - Golf course, yachting school. - Late Gothic parish church (former collegiate church), first documented mention in 894; one of the earliest Christian communities and centre of missionary activity (Freising) in Carinthia; foundation of a collegiate monastery in 1146. - Marble south portal designed in the Romanesque style (12th century), fresco depicting St. Christopher, Romanesque hall crypt with fragments of frescoes, erected on the foundations of another church, completed in 1540, interior redesigned in Baroque style, high altar (1658) with a miraculous representation of the Virgin on her throne in heaven (around 1460); round Romanesque charnel house (consecrated in 1279); Winter Church (also called Rosary Church), built around 1155, cycle of Romanesque frescoes (12th century) on the walls of the choir, Gothic stained glass windows (1420-1430), 15th century statue of the Virgin; Late Gothic crucifixion group, 14th century church bell.

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