!!!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.


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