!!!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.

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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.


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