!!!Metnitz

Metnitz, Carinthia, market town in the district of St. Veit an 
der Glan, alt. 851 m, pop. 2,711, area 223.11 km%%sup 2/%, 
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 
14%%sup th/%  and beginning of the 15%%sup th/%  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 15%%sup th/%  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).

!Literature
H. Staunig, Zur Geschichte des Marktes Metnitz in Kaernten 
vom Mittelalter bis 1848/49, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1971.


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