Klagenfurt (AT)

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Klagenfurt or Klagenfurt am Wörthersee is a town (96,640 inhabitants end 2013), capital of the federal state of Carinthia in Austria. The city is the bishop's seat of the Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt and home to the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.

Klagenfurt is divided into 16 districts:
  • I - IV Innere Stadt
  • V St. Veiter Vorstadt
  • VI Völkermarkter Vorstadt
  • VII Viktringer Vorstadt
  • VIII Villacher Vorstadt
  • IX Annabichl
  • X St. Peter (Slovene: Šentpeter pri Celovcu)
  • XI St. Ruprecht
  • XII St. Martin
  • XIII Viktring
  • XIV Wölfnitz
  • XV Hörtendorf
  • XVI Welzenegg
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Postmark Examples

Army Signals KL postmark 1945
KLAGENFURT 1998

Postmarks in Cisleithania (1867-1918)

Antiqua Frame Klein type aKe on a 1867 issue.
Grotesk Frame Klein type gKe on a 1873 newspaper issue, hours 7 - 12
BESTELLT on a 1890 issue. KLein image 380.
Bridge June, 1906

District X

The LIMMERSACH bei KLAGENFURT post office opened on 18 October 1894.

LIMMERSACH bei KLAGENFURT
LIMMERSACH b. KLAGENFURT, 1916.

Covers and cards

KLAGENFURT type aKe in 1874, hours 1-6.
KLAGENFURT Boxed (aKe), 1 Dec 1880, hours 7-12.
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Postmarks in Austrian Empire Carinthia province

The post office opened before 1850.

KLAGENFURT Circle on a 1863 issue.

Covers & Cards

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KLAGENFURT Circle in 1862.