!!!Ossiach

Ossiach, Carinthia, municipality in the district of Feldkirchen, alt. 
510 m, pop. 703, area 17.40 km%%sup 2/%, summer tourism 
(430,530 overnight stays in 1992), bathing resort on the south-eastern 
shore of Lake Ossiach; wharf. - Breeding farm of the Chamber of 
Agriculture, Forestry School, recreation home for blind war veterans, 
summer toboggan course,  Carinthischer Sommer Festival (every 
July/August), Carinthia Gallery (in the abbey). - Former Benedictine 
abbey (the oldest in Carinthia, founded before 1028, closed 1783) 
3-aisled, late Gothic colonnade basilica, (originally Romanesque, 
altered 1737-1744), grave of the Polish King Boleslav II (with 
relief of a horse dating back to Roman times) at the northern exterior 
wall, interior walls altered in the Baroque style with coloured stucco 
and frescoes (J. F. Fromiller), high altar (late 17%%sup th/%  
century) with enthroned Madonna, late Gothic winged altarpiece (around 
1505) with wood carvings by the St. Veit Atelier in the baptistery; 
Fuerstensaal hall (partly demolished in 1816) with frescoes by 
J. F. Fromiller (around 1739/40, including life-size 
representations of 14 Habsburg rulers).

!Literature
I. Bodo, Geschichte des Benediktinerstiftes Ossiach, 
doctoral thesis, Vienna 1967.


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