Radentheim

Radenthein is a metropolis in Spittal an der Drau District, in the Austrian nation of Carinthia. The town is situated in the Gegend valley of the Nock Mountains range, stretching to the japanese shore of Lake Millstatt. Radenthein borders at the municipalities of Millstatt in the west and Bad Kleinkirchheim in the east. The municipal place contains the cadastral communities of Dobriach, Kaning, Laufenberg, Radenthein proper, Sankt Peter, and Tweng. The faraway, densely forested valley turned into now not colonized until approximately a thousand.

A chapel at villam Ratehtim turned into first stated in an 1177 deed, then part of the Millstatt Abbey estates within the Duchy of Carinthia; it changed into raised to a parish in 1262. Since the Middle Ages Radenthein had been an iron ore and garnet mining vicinity and the web page of a finery forge, even the usage of reverberatory furnaces is documented since the past due 18th century. When approximately 1908 an in depth occurrence of magnesite was determined and the inspiration of the "Austro-American Magnesite" mining organization brought about a large boom in population. The municipality received the fame of a town in 1995.