Velden am Worthersee

Velden am Worther See is a marketplace metropolis and a legally recognized health motel with 8926 inhabitants within the district Villach-Land in Carinthia. The region is one of the most well-known and famous visitor lodges in Austria. The oldest documentary mention of Velden dates returned to 1150.

The call derives from velvets from. Since the twelfth century, the Velden region belonged to the rule and fortress Hohenwart, which over the centuries had been owned by way of the Counts of Ortenburg and Cilli, the Millstatt St. George Knights and the Habsburgs. 1545 received the Khevenhüller rule over Landskron and Velden. The self-governing rule Velden from 1603 went inside the wake of the Counter Reformation 1629 inside the ownership of the Counts of Dietrichstein. In the dissolution of the rule of thumb with the aid of the municipal regulation of March 17, 1849, the commune territory protected the cadastral Velden, Augsdorf, Duel, Lind Emmersdorf, Kerschdorf, Kostenberg and sand. On January 1, 1850, these groups became the impartial municipality Velden, which changed its size several times within the 19th and 20th centuries.