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Church · Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Carinthia

Klagenfurt Cathedral

Klagenfurter Dom · Domkirche Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Gurk in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul and built in the late 16th century as a Protestant church.

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Klagenfurt Cathedral (Domkirche Klagenfurt) is the parish church of the Klagenfurt cathedral parish on Lidmanskygasse and, according to the diocese's church page, the cathedral of the Diocese of Gurk since 1787. The same page says it was built between 1581 and 1597 as a Protestant house of prayer and handed to the Jesuits in 1604, that its side bays were turned into chapels early in the 17th century, that the baroque remodelling of the interior in 1660 shapes its appearance, and that it was restored after a fire in 1723. It describes a large west tower and a barrel-vaulted interior with galleries. The cathedral parish publishes its service times on the diocese's site. This record is the cathedral in Klagenfurt, not Gurk Cathedral in the town of Gurk.

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Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee is the capital of Carinthia, a statutory city that lies on the east bay of the Wörthersee. XTOUR maps the Lindwurm Fountain and the cathedral in the city, and treats the Wörthersee and Hochosterwitz Castle as places reached from it, not as part of it.

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