!!!Völkermarkt Voelkermarkt, Carinthia, town in the district of Voelkermarkt, alt. 462 m, pop. 11,081, area 137.35 km%%sup 2/%, lying north of Voelkermarkt storage lake on the river Drau/Drava, at the eastern edge of the Klagenfurt Basin. - District Commission, district court, Employment Services, surveying office, offices of the Chambers of Labour, of the Economic Chambers, of the Berufsfoerderungsinstitut (BFI) and of the Wirtschaftsfoerderungsinstitut (WIFI), office of the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry, regional health insurance agency, welfare assistance centre, therapy centre, school psychological service, town museum (documentation of the Carinthian Resistance Movement and the Carinthian Plebiscite of 1920), town library, depot of the regional office for torrent and avalanche control, Hungarian Consulate, Swiss Consular Agency; schools: Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium secondary schools, commercial school, vocational school, Goldbrunnhof agricultural trade school, convent of the Schulschwestern religious educational order. Regional headquarters of the KELAG electricity utility, Voelkermarkt and Obersielach power substations. Around 59% of the 3,534 gainfully employed persons (1991) work in the service sector; production: concrete construction, precision mechanics industry, machine building, new industrial park (large number of enterprises, e.g. label production); summer tourism (38,497 overnight stays in 1992). - Documented between 1105 and 1126 as "Volchimercatus", since 1254 documented as a town, town status renewed in 1342, economic and political peak in the 15%%sup th/% century; remains of town´s defensive structures (escarpment walls and circular tower); town parish church (1240-1247, alteration in the 2%%sup nd/% half of the 15%%sup th/% century) with west towers, late Romanesque core and portal from the same period, late Gothic frescoes (15%%sup th/% and 16%%sup th/% centuries), Baroque high altar (around 1730) and Virgin Mary altar with carved statues, Gothic stone pietà (early 15%%sup th/% century), Gothic stone Virgin (2%%sup nd/% quarter of the 14%%sup th/% century), late Gothic lantern in front of the church (1477); parish church of St. Ruprecht (11%%sup th/% to 12%%sup th/% century, renovations in the 18%%sup th/% and 19%%sup th/% centuries), Romanesque chancel tower, Baroque high altar, Romanesque ossuary with early Gothic chancel; old town hall (1499); Trinity column (1715) on the main square; houses with 16%%sup th/% -century central structure and Biedermeier façades; Kohlhof Palace outside the town (16%%sup th/% century, altered in the 19%%sup th/% century); provost´s estate in the cadastral municipality of Tainach (17%%sup th/% century), church with late Gothic core in Tainach (murals from 1423); filial church of St. Agnes with Gothic murals and vault paintings (14%%sup th/% century), ossuary (13%%sup th/% century), Baroque high altar (around 1740); parish church in St. Margarethen ob Toellerberg (1%%sup st/% half of the 16%%sup th/% century), winged altarpiece and Virgin on the Crescent (both around 1520); parish church of St. Peter am Wallerberg (1888-1893); ruins of Waisenberg Castle, Gothic structures including a tower, circumvallation and main living quarters of the medieval castle; Toellerberg castle (16%%sup th/% century) with Baroque stuccowork and murals; Frankenstein castle (re-built after 1797); late Gothic parish church (fortified church) with late Gothic chancel, Baroque high altar (1673) and late Gothic Lenten veil displayed between chancel and nave (1504) in the cadastral municipality of Haimburg (documented mention in 1272), ruins of the Gothic and Baroque castle of the Counts of Heunburg (until 1322) and of Rauterburg Castle, Thalenstein Castle west of Haimburg (originally from the 15%%sup th/% century, modern building from the 18%%sup th/% century). !Literature Stadtgemeinde Voelkermarkt. (ed.), 700 Jahre Stadt Voelkermarkt, 1953; K. Wit, Voelkermarkt. Chronik der Grossgemeinde, 1980; E. J. Kolleritsch, Zur soziooekonomischen Entwicklung des S-Kaerntner Bez. Voelkermarkt, master´s thesis, Vienna 1987. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Völkermarkt|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]