St. Stefan im Gailtal#
St. Stefan im Gailtal, Carinthia, municipality in the district of Hermagor, alt. 726 m, pop. 1893, area 66.24 km2, summer tourist resort (52,348 overnight stays in 1992) situated north of the lower Gailtal valley; includes the cadastral community of St. Stefan an der Gail. - Late Gothic parish church with Baroque interior; Calvary chapel (1771); castles Greifenstein (1556), Bodenhof (16th -17th centuries), Zossenegg, Bichelhof; ruins of Aichelburg Castle (first documented mention in 1307). Local customs: Kufenstechen and Lindentanz.
Literature#
A. Eichwalder, Geschichte der Katastralgemeinde Sankt Stefan im Gailtal von 1830 bis in die 2. Haelfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, master´s thesis, Klagenfurt 1988.