!!!Reichenfels

Reichenfels, Carinthia, market town in the district of Wolfsberg, alt. 
809 m, pop. 2,073, area 87.16 km%%sup 2/%, summer tourism 
(15,442 overnight stays in 1992), situated in the upper Lavanttal 
valley. - Koelzersauerbrunn well; machine manufacture, wood-working 
industry. - In the Middle Ages Reichenfels profited greatly from the 
mining of silver (reich = rich). Late-Gothic parish church (first 
documented mention 1285) with Romanesque core, Baroque extensions and 
interior; circular charnel house; fortress ruins; Romanesque-Gothic 
Oswaldkirche church in Sommerau; parish church of St. Peter im 
Lavanttal, oldest church (probably 931) in the upper Lavanttal valley, 
choir from the 14%%sup th/%  century, 1492 late-Gothic extensions with 
impressive tower, Baroque alterations from the 17%%sup th/%  century.


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