Latschach am Faaker See

Latschach ( village ) ; locality ; cadastral community Latschach am Faaker See
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Villach-Land (VL), Carinthia
Pole. local community	Finkenstein am Faaker See
Coordinates	46 ° 33 '30 " N , 13 ° 55' 33" E Coordinates: 46 ° 33 '30 " N , 13 ° 55' 33" E
height	642 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	548 (January 1, 2020)
Area d. KG	5.37 km²
Post Code	9582 Latschach
prefix	+ 43/4254
	Statistical identification
Locality code	02358
Cadastral parish number	75426
Counting district / district	Faak-Latschach-Greuth (20 711 000)
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; KAGIS

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Latschach (formerly also Unterlatschach ; Slovenian Loče ) is a village , a locality and at the same time the cadastral community Latschach am Faaker See in the market town of Finkenstein am Faaker See in the Villach-Land district in Carinthia , Austria .

Geographical location

Latschach is located south of Faaker See at an altitude of approx. 650 m . The district capital Villach is ten kilometers northwest.

Infrastructure

Parish Church of St. Ulrich

The place has a cultural center where numerous events take place, especially in the tourist season. The local parish church of St. Ulrich with a remarkable high altar dates from 1749. Together with the cemetery surrounding it, it is under monument protection ( list entry ). The population lives mainly from summer and winter tourism, which is demonstrated by numerous private accommodations and several boarding houses.

Fox track

The fox trail is a newly designed and built hiking trail at Hotel Schönleiten in June 2017 .

Personalities

A famous athlete from Latschach is the professional cyclist Peter “Paco” Wrolich , who also organizes a hill climb in Latschach every year.
In 1936 the Nazi Hubert Klausner made his house in Latschach am Faaker See the headquarters of the illegal Gauleitung.

Individual evidence

^ Alois Kieslinger : The usable rocks of Carinthia. In: Carinthia II . Special issue 17, Verlag des Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1956, p. 118 ( limited preview in the Google book search, entire article p. 1–348, PDF (368.3 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
↑ Alfred Elste, Dirk Hänisch, Anton Pelinka: On the way to power. Contributions to the NSDAP in Carinthia from 1918–1938 . Braumüller, Vienna 1997, p. 296 ff.

[1] Alois Kieslinger : The usable rocks of Carinthia. In: Carinthia II . Special issue 17, Verlag des Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1956, p. 118 ( limited preview in the Google book search, entire article p. 1–348, PDF (368.3 MB) on ZOBODAT ).

[2] Alfred Elste, Dirk Hänisch, Anton Pelinka: On the way to power. Contributions to the NSDAP in Carinthia from 1918–1938 . Braumüller, Vienna 1997, p. 296 ff.