!!!Wolfsberg

Wolfsberg, Carinthia, town in the district of Wolfsberg, alt. 
460 m, pop. 25,250 (2000), area 278.44 km%%sup 2/%, major 
municipality and economic centre of the Lavanttal valley, situated at 
the foot of the Koralpe mountain. - District commission, district 
court, labour market service, tax office, chamber of labour, economic 
chamber, vocational training institute with training centre, chamber 
of agriculture and forestry, Aichelburg barracks, regional health and 
social insurance office, hospital, social centre, counselling centre 
for women and families, workshop and hostel of the Lebenshilfe 
(association engaged in life-counselling), psychological school 
service, Lavanttal valley museum of local history and culture, golf 
course, town library, Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium secondary school, 
commercial academy, Hauptschule secondary school, upper secondary 
school of engineering, advanced-level commercial school, Capuchin 
monastery, airport, waterworks, road maintenance authority, road 
maintenance, shoemaking and, in the engineering industry, metal 
processing, building and construction industry, textile industry; and 
in the service sectors (personal, social and public services, trade). 
- Finds from the Bronze, Hallstatt and Roman eras. Territory of the 
city of Bamberg from the 11%%sup th/%  century, confirmation of the 
town charter in 1331, part of Austria since 1759. Wine-growing was the 
most important sector of the economy in the Middle Ages, later on the 
iron industry became more important. Late-Romanesque town parish 
church (first documented mention 1216), three-aisled pier basilica 
with Romanesque recessed portal (around 1240), Gothic and 
early-Baroque additions, Gothic choir, late-Gothic 
St. Catherine´s chapel, Baroque high altar (1776) with 
altarpiece (1777) by M. J. Schmidt; to the northeast of the church, 
late-Gothic chapel with late-Gothic winged altar (from the end of the 
15%%sup th/%  century). Heilige Dreifaltigkeit ("Holy 
Trinity") filial church with Baroque altars and Gothic 
pietà (around 1410); Capuchin church (1777), Protestant church 
(built before 1857); castle built on a hill (first documented mention 
1178 as castle of the diocese of Bamberg, extended in the 16%%sup th/% 
 century, renovated in Historicist-Romantic style 1846-1853), 
neo-Gothic chapel, riding school (1855); Henckel-Donnersmarck 
mausoleum (1858/59); Bayerhofen Castle (alterations in the 2%%sup nd/% 
 half of the 16%%sup th/%  century) with arcaded courtyard (around 
1560-1565); town hall (1888); town houses with Renaissance arcaded 
courts and façades from the 19%%sup th/%  century; cadastral 
district of  Waldenstein. Town area: Late-Gothic parish church in 
St. Stefan (widened in 1962) with Baroque high altar and 
late-Gothic statues; large Gothic parish church in St. Michael 
(Baroque elements added in the 18%%sup th/%  century), Gothic frescoes 
(around 1440); late-Gothic filial church in St. Thomas, Baroque 
high altar (late 17%%sup th/%  century); late-Gothic parish church 
with two beautiful portals, late-Gothic stone pulpit (around 1520) and 
Baroque interior; late-Gothic parish church in St. Margarethen 
(around 1530), painted and altered in Baroque style, high altar 
(1730); parish church with Romanesque core in Prebl with late-Gothic 
choir and high altar; fragments of Roman tombstones attached to the 
outer wall. Silberberg Castle (16%%sup th/%  century; Reideben castle, 
Renaissance construction (around 1550) with pergolas and arcades in 
the courtyard; ruins of Schloss Moosheim castle (16%%sup th/%  
century) in Prebl.

!Literature
O. Lamprecht et al., Festschrift for the 700 year 
anniversary of the municipality of Wolfsberg, 1970; G. Egger, Die 
Gemeinde Wolfsberg in Kaernten, doctoral thesis, Graz 1980; 
Stadtgemeinde Wolfsberg (ed.), Wolfsberger Illustriertes 
Rathausmagazin 17, 1994.


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