!!!St. Andrä

St. Andrae, Carinthia, town in the district of Wolfsberg, 
alt. 433 m, pop. 10,582, 
area 113.53 km%%sup 2/%, in Lavant Valley. - Office of Water 
Management, agricultural trade school, fruit research area of the 
Chamber of Agriculture, probation office, old peoples' home in the 
former Jesuit college, Providentia convent, recreational facilities; 
1,779 employed persons (1991); industry and trade predominant (metal 
processing industry, agricultural machinery construction, processing 
of synthetic materials and wood, building and construction industry) 
and energy supply (steam generating plant since 1959, 110 MW), tourism 
(30,361 overnight stays in 1992). - 1228-1859 seat of the bishops of 
Lavant. Remnants of the city-wall with round tower; town parish church 
and former cathedral church (probably established in the second half 
of the 8%%sup th/%  century, making it the oldest parish of the 
Lavant Valley), Gothic basilica (14%%sup th/% -15%%sup th/% 
 century, reconstruction in the Baroque period and in the 
19%%sup th/%  century) with Gothic frescoes and figural grave 
stones (15%%sup th/% -18%%sup th/%  century); former Salzburg 
Pfleghof (estate of Habsburg-Lothringen); Baroque Jesuit college; 
Maria Loreto pilgrimage church (1683-1687) with monastery (1665) on 
the northern outskirts of Sankt Andrae.

!Literature
J. Poetsch, 650 Jahre Stadt Sankt Andrae 1339-1989; 1989.


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