Metnitz#

Metnitz, Carinthia, market town in the district of St. Veit an der Glan, alt. 851 m, pop. 2,711, area 223.11 km2, in Metnitz Valley at the foot of the Metnitz Mountains. - Forest guard station; wood processing industry, some tourism. - In Metnitz, (first documented mention in 1043) parish church St. Leonhard, in Gothic style with Baroque extensions, elaborate frescoes (beginning of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century); 13 life-size richly carved pedestal figures of the Apostles (1746) by the Judenburg wood carving workshop of B. Prandtstaetter, All Souls altar (1775) by J. Pacher, frescoes depicting St. Christopher (1500) on the southern wall of the nave; octagonal Gothic charnel house with Medieval danse macabre frescoes (copy, original in the danse macabre museum on Pfarrplatz square); calvary chapel (1726); affiliate and pilgrimage church Maria Hoefl (early 15th century) with Gothic stained windows (1425). In Grades, (first documented mention in 1285) castle (1173), restored medieval building, with ceiling frescoes by J. Fromiller, parish church with Romanesque nave and Baroque annexes, frescoes (from 1200), St. Wolfgang affiliate church (1453-1474) with carved wing altar piece and fortified walls (6-9m thick).

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