Treffen#

Treffen, Carinthia, market town in the district of Villach-Land, alt. 542 m, pop. 4,311, area 71.04 km2, summer tourist resort (452,938 overnight stays) situated on the Treffner Bach stream to the north of Villach close to Lake Ossiach and Kanzelhoehe mountain (1,524 m; observatory of the University of Graz). - Protestant foundation with special hospital and homes for disabled children and adults, leisure centre, Catholic St. Antonius children´s home, doll museum, museum of local alpine culture; Poellingerhuette mountain refuge, Kanzelbahn cableway (from Annenheim); production of plastic windows and filters, saw mills. - Documented mention as the donation of one "curtis ad Trebinam" to the Bavarian monastery of Oetting in 860. Parish church (originally a fortified church, documented mention between 878 and 906) with Romanesque tower and round-arched windows, Gothic choir and Baroque additions, altered in 1812, Gothic west portal, frescoes (1637 and 1495), fine early Classicist oil paintings, Roman relief stone; palace (1691): built in Italian style with a large hall and on each upper floor one smaller hall with stucco ceiling (around 1700); Romanesque-Gothic Alt-Treffen castle ruins.

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