!!!Obervellach

Obervellach, Carinthia, market town in the district of Spittal an der 
Drau, alt. 687 m, pop. 2,715, area 104.41 km%%sup 2/%, 
principal town of the Moelltal valley and tourist resort (109,867 
overnight stays, especially during the summer months) at the northern 
foot of Polinik mountain (alt. 2,784 m). - Forest ranger station, 
spa centre; weather station, hydroelectric power plant of the Austrian 
Federal Railways (built in 1929, 16 MW), construction companies, wood 
processing, warehouse. - First documented mention between 957 and 993 
as "Vellach", gold mining in the Hohe Tauern mountains in the 
16%%sup th/%  century, then copper mining from around 1690-1830. - 
Parish church (1516) in late Gothic style with late Gothic frescoes, 
glass paintings and winged altar with triptych by J. van Scorel 
(1520), carvings in late Gothic style; cemetery wall with round tower; 
Calvary chapel (1732); Stollhofen parish church in late Gothic style 
(1476-1521) with wall frescoes and vault paintings (1480 and 1520); 
Stampferkapelle chapel with fresco by J. F. Fromiller (1717); 
Soebriach branch church (1496); Trabuschgen Palace (first documented 
mention in 1434, extensions in the 16%%sup th/%  and 18%%sup th/%  
centuries, currently a bed-and-breakfast) with frescoes and oil 
paintings by J. F. Fromiller; chapel with frescoes by A. Zoller; 
old burghers' houses; Groppenstein Castle (15%%sup th/%  century); 
Falkenstein Castle ruins (first documented mention in 1164) and 
Falkenstein Palace (extensions in the 18%%sup th/%  century and in 
1906). In the vicinity, three waterfalls (Polinikfall, Rauchkopffall 
and Klausbachfall).

!Literature
E. Hoehr, W. Antoni and K. Frank (eds.), 1000 Jahre 
Obervellach. Gesammelte Beitraege zur Ortsgeschichte, 1963.


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