!!!Moosburg in Kärnten

Moosburg in Kaernten, Carinthia, municipality in the district of 
Klagenfurt, alt. 503 m, pop. 4,117, area 36.78 km%%sup 2/%, 
summer tourist resort (102,874 overnight stays) north of Lake Woerther 
See. - Summer toboggan run, SOS Children´s Village, golf course 
and 1%%sup st/%  Carinthian Golf School. - First documented mention in 
879 as "Mosapurch", Carolingian palatinate of Moosburg, which cannot, 
however, be clearly localised; documented mention of  Arnulf von 
Kaernten, duke of Carinthia, Parish church altered around 1765. Grave 
reliefs from Roman times on the southern exterior wall; murals and 
Baroque interior (around 1755); beautiful gravestones with coats of 
arms (16%%sup th/%  to 17%%sup th/%  centuries). Neue Moosburg Castle 
on a hill west of Moosburg built in the 16%%sup th/%  century, 
enlarged in the 17%%sup th/%  century; two-aisled late Gothic hall and 
stucco ceiling with half length figures (1590); castle ruin 
(Hetzelburg), tower (17 m high, 10%%sup th/% /11%%sup th/%  centuries) 
preserved; Ratzenegg Castle (first documented mention 1333, 
significantly enlarged around 1600) with magnificent rusticated main 
portal; Tigring Castle (home for the senior citizens). Near Moosburg: 
lakes Mitterteich and Strussnigteich.


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