Gmünd (Slovene: Sovodenj ) is a town in the district of Spittal an der Drau, in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
The municipality is situated within the valley of the Lieser river, a left tributary of the Drava, east of the Hohe Tauern mountain range.
The municipality is divided into three parts for cadastral, but not for political, purposes: Gmünd, Kreuschlach and Landfrass. There are the following constituent villages (2001 pop. in parentheses)...
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Gmünd (Slovene: Sovodenj ) is a town in the district of Spittal an der Drau, in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
The municipality is situated within the valley of the Lieser river, a left tributary of the Drava, east of the Hohe Tauern mountain range.
The municipality is divided into three parts for cadastral, but not for political, purposes: Gmünd, Kreuschlach and Landfrass. There are the following constituent villages (2001 pop. in parentheses):
Once a mansio at the Roman road leading to the Katschberg Pass and Iuvavum (Salzburg), the town of Gmünd was probably founded by Archbishop Eberhard II of Salzburg, as it was first documented in 1252. Laid out as a southern outpost of the archbishopric, a market was mentioned in 1273 and Gmünd received town privileges in 1346.
To avoid Allied bomb raids the Porsche vehicle manufactoring company from 1944 on was headquartered in Gmünd until it moved back to the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart in 1950. Here in a former sawmill Ferdinand...
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