Lavamünd ( sl, Labot) 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 ...

in the district of Wolfsberg in the

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n state of

Carinthia Carinthia (german: Kärnten ; sl, Koroška ) is the southernmost Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Bavarian group. Carin ...

. The Lavamünd hydroelectric power plant on the Drava River and the Koralpe power plant are located in or near Lavamünd.

Geography

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Lavamünd lies in the southeast of Carinthia, close to the border with

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and ...

( Slovene Carinthia). It is situated at the confluence of the Lavant and Drava rivers. In the northeast, the

Soboth Pass The Soboth Pass (elevation 1347 m) is a high mountain pass in the Alps, located north of the border between Austria and Slovenia in the Austrian states of Styria and Carinthia connecting Soboth and Lavamünd. References See also * List of ...

leads across the

Koralpe The Koralpe ( en, Kor Alps, sl, Golica or ), also referred to as ''Koralm'', is a mountain range in southern Austria which separates eastern Carinthia from southern Styria. The southern parts of the range extend into Slovenia. Running from north ...

range to Eibiswald in

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. At an elevation of AA, the area is the lowest part of Carinthia. The municipal area consists of the cadastral communities of Ettendorf, Großlamprechtsberg, Hart (''Dobrova''), Lamprechtsberg-Hartneidstein, Lavamünd proper, Lorenzenberg (''Šentlovrenc''), Magdalensberg, Rabenstein (''Rabštajn pri Labotu''), Weißenberg, and Wunderstätten (''Drumlje pri Labotu'').

History

The region in the Drava valley was already settled in

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times. The estates at the confluence with the Lavant River were mentioned in a 1091 deed of donation, issued by the local Sponheim count Engelbert I in favour of newly established Saint Paul's Abbey. The market town itself arose in the 13th century; it was first documented in 1334.

Habsburg The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...

Emperor Frederick III vested the citizens with high justice rights (''Blutgerichtsbarkeit'') in 1461. The present-day municipality was established in 1850. Upon the 1920 Carinthian plebiscite, the neighbouring area of

Dravograd Dravograd (; german: Unterdrauburg) is a small town in northern Slovenia, close to the border with Austria. It is the seat of the Municipality of Dravograd. It lies on the Drava River at the confluence with the Meža and the Mislinja. It i ...

(''Unterdrauburg'') fell to the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 191 ...

. 96.9% of the Lavamünd citizens voted to remain with the Austrian Republic.

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (''Gemeinderat'') as of 2015 local elections: *

Social Democratic Party of Austria The Social Democratic Party of Austria (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs , SPÖ), founded and known as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (german: link=no, Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ) unti ...

(SPÖ): 12 *

Austrian People's Party The Austrian People's Party (german: Österreichische Volkspartei , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria. Since December 2021, the party has been led provisionally by Karl Nehammer. It is curre ...

(ÖVP): 8 * Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ): 3

References

External links

Municipal website
Cities and towns in Wolfsberg District {{Carinthia-geo-stub