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Gemeinde Himmelberg

Himmelberg is a municipality with 2304 inhabitants in the district of Feldkirchen in Carinthia. Himmelberg is located in the center of Carinthia northwest of Feldkirchen.

Culture and sights

    Townscape: Factory buildings of important smithies with associated residential and trade houses largely determined the townscape. Especially the "Schmieden an der Tradten" ("Forges on the Tradten", No. 42 and 45), which was mentioned around 1560 as a hammer and wire drawing forge, trade house, administration building, staff house, a remarkable two-story brick building, fire station, workshop complex), around 1700 managed as a scythe forge, after the takeover by the trade Zeilinger in 1874 leading in the scythe production. 

    Biedermeier architecture: Bianca Kos: "Due to the scythe and sickle production at the Tiebelbach, Himmelberg had gained a supra-regional importance. 

    Rural architecture: For the area typical farmhouses of the 18th century are two-storey block buildings with Kopfschrot as a corner connection and with a circumferential arcade and transverse corridor, so-called "Labn". Außerteuchen No. 11 "vulgo Stallwitznig", Außerteuchen No. 17. "vulgo Natmeßnig" and Außerteuchen No. 18 "vulgo Blaßnig".[6]

    Himmelberg castle ruins: the castle gave the name to the village. The ruins are the remains of a castle built in the 11th or 12th century above the village at the entrance to the Teuchen. It was already in decay in the 16th century and was depicted only as a ruin by Valvasor in 1688.

    Biberstein Castle: Documentarily mentioned in 1382 and 1396 respectively, it was built at that time by Marchwart the Pibriacher, a country judge. In 1571 it was acquired by Georg von Khevenhüller and finally came into the possession of the Salzburg Prince-Bishop Paris Lodron in 1662. Since then it has been the center of a fideicommissum of the Counts of Lodron and is still privately owned by this family.

Sacral buildings

    Himmelberg Parish Church: First mentioned in documents around 1060, it was rebuilt in baroque style after a fire in 1711. It contains baroque wall paintings.
    Parish Church Außerteuchen: Late Gothic building from the middle of the 15th century, mentioned in documents in 1453, with north tower and pointed helmet.
    Filial church Pichlern: Documented in 1451, late Gothic building with polygonal choir, sacristy attached to the north side and wooden ridge turret.
    Filialkirche Werschling: documented in 1494, small building surrounded by a cemetery wall with a low choir tower; Baroque furnishings.
    Way chapel in Schleichenfeld
    St. John Nepomuk niche wayside shrine in Sonnseitenstraße