!!!Maria Wörth

Maria Woerth, Carinthia, municipality in the district of Klagenfurt 
Land, alt. 450 m, pop. 1,067, area 17.39 km%%sup 2/%, 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 (12%%sup th/%  
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 (12%%sup th/%  century) on the walls of 
the choir, Gothic stained glass windows (1420-1430), 15%%sup th/%  
century statue of the Virgin; Late Gothic crucifixion group, 
14%%sup th/%  century church bell.

!Literature
F. Pagitz, Die Geschichte des Kollegiatsstiftes 
Maria Woerth, 1960; H. Malloth, Maria Woerth 
Kulturgeschichtlicher Mittelpunkt des Woerther-See-Raumes, 1979.


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