Feldkirchen

Feldkirchen lies in the Alpine country of Carinthia, its name meaning 'church in the fields'. It was recorded as Ueldchiricha in a document of 888, and its parish church of Maria im Dorn preserves a Carolingian choir within a Romanesque basilica. Once an estate of the Eppenstein family, Feldkirchen passed to the bishops of Bamberg in 1166. They built the Amthof as the seat of their local administration. In 1759 Maria Theresa of Austria acquired the estate.