Waitschach#

Waitschach, Carinthia, small rural settlement in the district of St. Veit an der Glan, alt. 1,155 m (formerly called Maria Waitschach), above the Goertschitztal valley, divided between the municipalities of Guttaring and Huettenberg. - Late-Gothic parish and pilgrimage church (first documented mention 1390, building from the 15th /16th centuries, originally surrounded by a fortification structure) with Roman sepulchral relief, high altar (around 1670) with late-Gothic pilgrimage painting (2nd quarter of the 15th century), so-called landscape altar (1626) richly decorated with figures and ornaments, Gothic charnel house.