Velden am Wörthersee is a market town

Market town

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 in the district of Villach-Land

Villach-Land

Bezirk Villach-Land is a district of the state ofCarinthia in Austria.-Municipalities:Towns are indicated in boldface; market towns in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.*Arnoldstein **Agoritschach, Arnoldstein, Erlendorf, Gailitz,...

 in the Austria

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n state

States of Austria

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 of Carinthia

Carinthia (state)

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. Situated at the western shore of the Wörthersee

Wörthersee

The Wörthersee is an alpine lake in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia.-General facts:The lake is elongated, about 20 km long and 1–2 km wide. It stretches from the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt in the east to Velden in the west...

 lake it is one of the most popular holiday resorts

Resort town

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 of Austria.

The municipality

Municipality

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 of Velden also includes the Katastralgemeinden of Augsdorf (Loga Vas), Dieschitz

Dieschitz

Dieschitz is an Austrian village in the municipality of Velden am Wörthersee, Villach – district - countryside, federal state or Bundesland Carinthia . In this article the Slovenian place-names follow the German in brackets written in italic...

 (Deščice), Duel (Dole), Kerschdorf ob Velden (Črešnje), Köstenberg (Kostanje), Latschach an der Drau (Loče), Lind ob Velden (Lipa) and Sankt Egyden (Šentilj).

According to a 2001 census

Census

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 2.8% of the population are Slovene

Carinthian Slovenes

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-speaking.

History

Originally a mansio

Mansio

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 at the Roman road

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 between Villach

Villach

Villach is the second largest city in the Carinthia state in the southern Austria, at the Drava River and represents an important traffic junction for Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 58,480.-History:...

 (Sanctium) and Virunum

Magdalensberg

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 it was first mentioned in a 1263 deed as Campus (field, pasture - German

German language

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: Feld) and in 1410 as Velben. In medieval times it belonged to the estates of the Hohenwart castle, seat of the Counts of Celje

Counts of Celje

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, of Ortenburg, the Knightly Order of Saint George

Knights of St. George

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 in Millstatt

Millstatt

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 and the Habsburg

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s.

In 1545 the Khevenhüller noble family acquired the lands and in 1603 built a Renaissance

Renaissance architecture

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 manor house

Manor house

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. Demolished by a fire it was rebuilt in 1892 as a hotel called Schloss Velden

Schloss Velden

Schloss Velden, a Capella Hotel, is a year-round Austrian resort located in Velden am Wörthersee on Lake Woerth .- History :The hotel began as the Castle Velden in 1590, over 400 years ago. A fire in 1762 burned the castle, and was then reconstructed and opened as a hotel in 1890...

. A real estate of Gunter Sachs

Gunter Sachs

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 it was the filming location of the popular 1990-1992 German-Austrian tv series Ein Schloss am Wörthersee starring Schlager

Schlager

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 singer Roy Black

Roy Black (singer)

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.

Twin towns — sister cities

Velden am Wörther See is twinned

Town twinning

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 with: Bled

Bled

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, Slovenia

Slovenia

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, since 2004 Gemona del Friuli

Gemona del Friuli

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, Italy

Italy

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 Jesolo

Jesolo

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, Italy, since 2006

External links

• Schloss Velden official website
• Hotel Ogris am See official website | Family-run design hotel at the lakeside
• Holiday in Velden am Woerthersee | Info website for tourists