!!!Straßburg

Strassburg, Carinthia, town in the district of St. Veit an der Glan, 
alt. 681 m, pop. 2,465, area 97.47 km%%sup 2/%, in the Gurk 
Valley. - Commercial school (private); wood-working industry, building 
trade. - First documented mention 864, town status confirmed in 1402, 
until 1786 seat of the Bishops of Gurk. Romanesque former 
bishop´s castle (1147, extended in 1179), one of the most 
important fortifications in Austria, major extensions mainly in the 
14%%sup th/%  and 17%%sup th/%  centuries, destroyed by a stroke of 
lightning in 1856, fell into disuse, restored 1956-1990, keep, arcaded 
courtyard, north tract with 2 towers, great hall now hunting museum; 
Gothic parish church (first documented mention 1169, alterations 
1432-1460 and 1630-1643) with late-Gothic vestry, Baroque side 
chapels, high-altar figures (1772) and the richly decorated pulpit 
(around 1772, one of the most beautiful in Carinthia) by B. 
Prandstaetter, pietà (around 1425); early-Gothic hospital 
church (first documented mention 1407) with Gothic choir, frescoes 
(around 1330) and richly decorated Baroque high altar (around 1720); 
Maria Loreto chapel (1650); subsidiary church (Baroque alterations 
1741).


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