Theme Week Carinthia – Maria Wörth
Wednesday, 24 December 2014 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General
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Maria Wörth is a municipality in the district of
Klagenfurt-Land . The centre of the resort town is situated on a peninsula at the southern shore of the
Wörthersee . In the east the municipal area borders the Carinthian capital
Klagenfurt . The municipality consists of the two
Katastralgemeinden Maria Wörth and Reifnitz.
A first St. Mary’s Church was erected about 875 during the Christianization in former Carantania , led by the Bishops of Freising based at Innichen Abbey . The church served for the translation of the relics of Saints Primus and Felician and played an important role within the Christian mission in the Duchy of Carinthia . About 1150 Bishop Otto of Freising founded a college of canons here and had the small Winterkirche chapel built beside the collegiate church . In 1399 both churches were destroyed by fire and afterwards rebuilt in the present late Gothic style . The Freising Prince-Bishops gradually lost their influence in Carinthia and about 1500 the college finally became an annex of Millstatt Abbey , from 1598 led by Jesuits . With the Suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, Millstatt Abbey was dissolved and Maria Wörth passed to the re-established Bendectine St. Paul’s Abbey in the Lavanttal in 1809. Not until 1903 the present-day municipality was established on territory of neighbouring Schiefling and Keutschach .
Poertschach Salonschiff and Thalia Strandbad Maria Woerth © Johann Jaritz/cc-by-sa-3.0-at
Maria Wörth is a centre of Austrian and European summer tourism, with 330,000 arrivals (although these numbers have declined sharply since the 1950s). Today’s parish church Saints Primus and Felician stands on the highest point of the peninsula, with the neighbouring
Winterkirche beneath it. It is a major pilgrimage site and, due to its romantic setting, a popular wedding church. Another tourist attraction is the nearby
Pyramidenkogel , an 851-meter high mountain with a 54-meter high observation platform, the Pyramidenkogel Tower.
In 1901 the composer
Gustav Mahler built a villa near the hamlet of Maiernigg, on the lakeside in the east of the municipality, where he was already using a “composing hut” in which most of his works written between 1900 and 1907 were composed, including his
Symphonies No. 5-8 . The hut is now open as a small museum. Through his friendship with
Alma Mahler , the composer’s widow,
Alban Berg also composed at Maiernigg, which was visited by many of the Viennese artistic elite.
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