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Modern town life

Recently, the municipality has tried to set initiatives with regard to improving the communal infrastructure and stimulating the old town.
The town centre with its beautiful façades was redesigned into a pedestrian zone with rich flower decorations. In 1999 St. Veit was awarded the silver medal at the “Entente Florale” in Augsburg as the second most beautiful town of flowers in Europe.

Through a renewal of the paving of individual streets or the roofing over the town hall courtyard and the Herzog-Bernhard square (formerly Klagenfurter Strasse) a further increase in the attractiveness in the centre, girded by the town wall, is expected. Collaterally, multi-storey car parks were built in the immediate vicinity. Further facilities, such as a treatment centre, two indoor tennis centres and a public indoor and outdoor swimming pool centre with Carinthia’s most attractive sauna complex, are also aimed at enhancing St. Veit’s image.

As regards the environmental sector, the sewerage system was completed – also the rural areas were connected to the sewerage system – and an efficient composting plant was built for processing organic waste.

The construction of the “Ernst-Fuchs-Palast” seminar hotel in Friesacher Strasse street, in the immediate vicinity to the town centre, could further enhance the town’s image. The world-famous artist Ernst Fuchs, a renowned representative of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, could be engaged for the design of the façade and the interior.

Further tourism impulses were set with the construction of an 18-hole golf course in St. Veit/Längsee as well as with the building of a “Blumenhotel” (flower hotel) with 220 beds next to the monastery church.