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Eisenkappel-Vellach (Slovene ?elezna Kapla-Bela) - usually simply called Eisenkappel - is a market town in the district of Völkermarkt (Slov. Velikovec)
in Austria, in the province of Carinthia (Slovene: Koroška) with 2194 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2023). Austria's southernmost point is located in the municipality.
The main town of Bad Eisenkappel is the administrative center of the market town and is the only place in Austria with the dual title of spa and climatic health resort.
The municipal area extends in the upper Vellachtal valley from the foothills to the main ridge of the eastern Karawanken mountains, close to the border with Slovenia.
Eisenkappel-Vellach has two border crossings to Slovenia, the Seebergsattel (Jezerski vrh) and the Paulitschsattel (Pavli?evo sedlo).
Eisenkappel owes its name to a chapel first mentioned in 1050.
Culture and sights
Partisan museum with memorial at the Peršmanhof: The Peršmanhof was a partisan base during the Second World War, and today houses a museum on the history of
of the Carinthian Slovenes during the National Socialist era.
Vintage Car & Farm Museum: with motorcycles, Buschenschenke zum Florian wine tavern
Catholic parish church Ebriach St. John the Baptist from the 14th century
Catholic parish church Eisenkappel St. Michael from the 15th century
Late Gothic pilgrimage church Maria Dorn with terraced cemetery from the 15th century
Hagenegg Castle with Renaissance and Baroque wing (Counts of Thurn and Valsassina) from the 14th century
Kommende Rechberg (slow. komenda Rebrca) from the 15th century
Rechberg castle ruins behind the church on the hill, from the 13th century
Ruins of the Turkish redoubt (sl. turške šance) from the 15th century
Obir dripstone caves: accessible as a show cave since 1987, with electric light
Geopark Karawanken: Geopark information center
Vellacher Kotschna nature reserve (slow. Belska Ko?na)
Trögerner Klamm nature reserve (Korške pe?i in Slovenian)
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