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15 unusual facts about Spittal an der Drau


Alenka Bernot

She won a gold medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Borut Justin

He won a gold medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Claire Costa

She won a gold medal in the K-1 team event at the 1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Erika Schönfeld

She won a bronze medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1965 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg

He retired to Carinthia and took his residence at Spittal an der Drau, where he had a luxuriant Renaissance palace built by Italian architects from 1533, today known as Schloss Porcia.

Josef Šedivec

He won a silver medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1965 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Kym Purdy

She won a bronze medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Linda Aponte

She won a silver medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Margitta Krüger

She won a silver medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Miroslav Nedvěd

He won two medals at the 1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal with a gold in the C-2 team event and a silver in the C-2 event.

Monika Lehmann

She won a gold medal in the mixed C-2 team event at the 1965 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Nonnosus

A re-interpretation for the origins of Nonnosus was posited by archaeological excavations at the village of Molzbichl, near Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia.

Rolf Luber

He won a silver medal in the folding K-1 event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Stuart Dry

He won a bronze medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.

Werner Lempert

He won a silver medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal.


Burgruine Ortenburg

In 1524 the comital title passed to Gabriel von Salamanca, who had his new residence, Porcia castle built in the nearby town of Spittal an der Drau.

Drava

The Drava flows through Innichen/San Candido in Italy, Lienz, Spittal an der Drau, Villach, and Ferlach in Austria, Dravograd, Vuzenica, Muta, Ruše, Maribor, Ptuj, and Ormož in Slovenia, Varaždin and Osijek in Croatia, and Barcs in Hungary, being navigable for about 90 km from Čađavica in Croatia to its outfall.

Maltatal

After the Austrian Anschluss to Nazi Germany, beginning in 1941 the Malta Valley was the site of a labour camp where deported prisoners of war originating from the Soviet Union were forced to work in a granite quarry supplying a Reichsautobahn construction site in nearby Spittal an der Drau (the present-day Tauern Autobahn).