Eberndorf ( sl, Dobrla vas, archaically ''Dobrla ves'') is a

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

of the Völkermarkt District in Carinthia,

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Geography

It is the main settlement in the Jaun (''Podjuna'') Valley of the Drava River, east of the Carinthian capital

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. Here the road from

Völkermarkt Völkermarkt (; sl, Velikovec) is a town of about 11,000 inhabitants in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the administrative capital of Völkermarkt District. It is located within the Drava valley east of the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt, north ...

leads uphill to the

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mountain range and across the

Seebergsattel Seeberg Saddle (german: Seebergsattel, sl, Jezerski vrh), also just Seeberg (''Jezersko'') is a high mountain pass connecting Bad Eisenkappel in the Austrian state of Carinthia with Jezersko in the Slovenian region of Carinthia. It is located in ...

Pass to

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. The nearby lake Gösselsdorfer See is a popular destination for day-trippers in summer. The municipal area includes the

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n Buchbrunn (''Bukovje''), Gablern (''Lovanke''), Gösselsdorf (''Goselna vas''), Kühnsdorf (''Sinča vas''), Loibegg (''Belovče''), Mittlern (''Metlova''), Mökriach (''Mokrije'') and Pribelsdorf (''Priblja vas''). At the 2001 census 8.6% of the population were

Carinthian Slovenes Carinthian Slovenes or Carinthian Slovenians ( sl, Koroški Slovenci; german: Kärntner Slowenen) are the indigenous minority of Slovene ethnicity, living within borders of the Austrian state of Carinthia, neighboring Slovenia. Their status of ...

History

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In the late 11th century the Aribonid count Kazelin (''Chazelinus'') founded Eberndorf Abbey within the Duchy of Carinthia. Patriarch Ulrich von Aquileia confirmed the establishment in an 1106 deed concerning the translation of the count's mortal remains to the newly built monastery church. In the mid 12th century, Patriarch Pilgrim of Aquileia had the premises enlarged as a

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community. From 1473, the buildings were devastated by Ottoman incursions and a fire, the reconstruction was supervised by Provost

Leonhard von Keutschach Leonhard von Keutschach (c. 1442 – 8 June 1519) was Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1495 until his death, the last to rule in the feudal style. Biography He was probably born at Viktring in Carinthia, the son of Otto von Keutschach, a ...

, the later Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. In the course of the Counter-Reformation, the Augustinian community was dissolved by

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in 1604. The Habsburg archduke Ferdinand II, ruler of the

Inner Austria Inner Austria (german: Innerösterreich; sl, Notranja Avstrija; it, Austria Interiore) was a term used from the late 14th to the early 17th century for the Habsburg hereditary lands south of the Semmering Pass, referring to the Imperial duchi ...

n lands, had urged him to install a Jesuit residence here. The monastery was secularised after the

suppression of the Society of Jesus The suppression of the Jesuits was the removal of all members of the Society of Jesus from most of the countries of Western Europe and their colonies beginning in 1759, and the abolishment of the order by the Holy See in 1773. The Jesuits were ...

in 1773. In 1809 it was dedicated to the Benedictine

St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal Saint Paul's Abbey in Lavanttal (german: Stift St. Paul im Lavanttal) is a Benedictine monastery established in 1091 near the present-day market town of Sankt Paul im Lavanttal in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The premises centered on the Rom ...

. The present-day municipality was established after the

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. The villages of Globasnitz, Rückersdorf and

Sittersdorf Sittersdorf ( sl, Žitara vas) is a town in the district of Völkermarkt in Carinthia in south-central Austria. Geography Sittersdorf lies about 10 km as the crow flies from the Slovenian border. The Vellach and the Suchabach flow through it. The ...

were split off in 1876. A narrow-gauge railway line leading from Völkermarkt via Eberndorf to Eisenkappel opened in 1902, it was dismantled in 1971. The

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

received market rights in 1952.

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (''Gemeinderat'') at the 2015 elections: * Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 12 * Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 5 *

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(FPÖ): 3 * Unity List (EL): 3

Notable people

Eberndorf is the birthplace of the Slovene novelist Mimi Malenšek (1919–2012) and the hometown of the prominent lawyer, human rights activist, and politician Rudi Vouk.

References

Cities and towns in Völkermarkt District {{Carinthia-geo-stub