Discover Klagenfurt Am Wörthersee

The sights of Klagenfurt Am Wörthersee offer a variety of highlights: city landmarks and historic architecture, changing art exhibitions, and botanical and landscape attractions. When planning your stay, you can consider which of these aspects interests you most. The examples below range from a single stone sculpture to a waterway between the city centre and the lake.

City landmarks, coats of arms and arcaded courtyards

The Lindwurm is Klagenfurt’s landmark and heraldic animal. It was carved from a single block of chlorite schist from Kreuzbergl. The city landmark thus refers both to a precisely named material and to its origin. In Klagenfurt’s Landhaus, the Great Coat of Arms Hall displays 665 coats of arms of the Carinthian Estates. Together, the Lindwurm and the hall invite comparison between a single heraldic animal and an extensive heraldic display.

A walk through Klagenfurt’s old town reveals more than 50 arcaded courtyards dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. Unlike individual landmarks and coats of arms, these numerous courtyards shape the historic view of the city. They therefore offer a different way to explore the city’s history than looking at a single sculpture or the coats of arms in the Landhaus.

Art and a virtual view of the world

The main rooms of Klagenfurt City Gallery cover around 1,000 square metres. Exhibitions of painting, sculpture, photography and new media change regularly. The focus is therefore on a variety of art forms and changing presentations. For a trip that includes an interest in art, the City Gallery offers a different highlight from the historic sights of the old town.

Minimundus has an indoor area where you can travel around the world virtually. This differs from the City Gallery’s exhibition programme: there, presentations across different fields of art change regularly, while at Minimundus the virtual journey takes centre stage. This lets you choose between two different thematic experiences for your stay without treating them as similar offerings.

Botany and views from Kreuzbergl

The Carinthian Botanical Centre, with its Botanical Garden and Carinthian State Herbarium, is located at the foot of Kreuzbergl, in the historic quarry of the state capital, Klagenfurt. The combination of a garden, herbarium and historic quarry gives the site both botanical and local historical significance. It broadens the view of the city with a focus that differs from coats of arms, arcaded courtyards and art exhibitions.

The observation platform at the Kreuzbergl Observatory offers a landscape perspective, with panoramic views across the Klagenfurt Basin and of the Karawanks. While the Botanical Centre focuses on its garden, herbarium and quarry, the platform looks out across the wider landscape. You can include different Kreuzbergl attractions in your travel plans.

Waterway and museum tramway

The Lendkanal is a waterway dating back to 1527 and measuring around 4 kilometres in length, connecting Klagenfurt city centre with Lake Wörthersee. With its named endpoints, it differs from individual buildings and viewpoints: the focus here is on a water connection between the city and the lake. Its approximate length and long history give the canal a distinctive place among Klagenfurt’s sights.

Along Klagenfurt’s Lendkanal, the museum tramway runs from the “Zur Tramway” buffet to the “Im Moos” nature reserve. At the terminus, there are exhibitions about the protected landscape, the history of local public transport in Klagenfurt and the Klagenfurt Cinema Museum. Nature, the history of local public transport and the cinema museum offer different themes centred around the end of the route. The tramway thus complements the waterway with another perspective on the landscape and the city’s history.

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For the broader travel overview: Klagenfurt-Land.