!!!Millstatt Millstatt, Carinthia, market town in the district of Spittal an der Drau, alt. 611 m, pop. 3,270, area 57.81 km%%sup 2/%, summer tourist resort (577,232 overnight stays) and bathing resort on the northern shore of Lake Millstatt; ship landing stage. - Forestry enterprise of the Oesterreichische Bundesforste AG (Austrian Federal Forests), congress centre, library, abbey museum, Festival of Music, 1,000-year-old lime tree. - First documented mention 1065-1075 as "Milistat". The Benedictine abbey (founded around 1060-1088, abolished 1469) had a school of sculpture, painting and writing. From 1469 seat of the Order of St. George (Georgsritterorden), 1598-1773 Jesuit college. Former abbey premises, surrounding two yards, with cloister, chapter house, Grand Master palace and abbey tract proper. \\ The former abbey church (now parish church) is a Romanesque-Gothic nave church (originally a Romanesque pier basilica, 11%%sup th/% century) with an impressive west tract and 2 towers, Romanesque stepped portal with stone relief and sculptures from the 12%%sup th/% century, significant Renaissance Last Judgement fresco, 6 x 4 m, by U. Goertschacher (1513-1518), high altar (1648) with richly gilt, symmetrical Baroque "gnarled" ornaments, and Baroque side altars in the side choirs; Loreto chapel in Gothic style (alterations end of 17%%sup th/% century); Domitian chapel (enlarged early 16%%sup th/% century) with altar (1716) and glass shrine (1643) of the legendary Duke Domitian and his wife; late Gothic "Siebenhirterkapelle" and "Geumannkapelle" chapels; former abbey premises with 4 defensive towers and ring work (around 1499), wall paintings on the cloister (around 1430), Renaissance pergolas (around 1530) in the south and west wings. Baroque Calvary chapel on hill; in Upper Millstatt, parish church (17%%sup th/% century) with altar (1720) and local heritage museum; in Matzelsdorf, church with late Gothic altar (around 1520); in Laubendorf, preserved church ruins from early Christian times (5%%sup th/% century). !Literature M. Maierbrugger, Die Geschichte von Millstatt, 1964. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Millstatt|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]