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Bezirk Villach-Land

St. Jakob im Rosental

Former Karawanken Railway Tunnel Workers' Hospital

Bezirk Villach-Land

St. Jakob im Rosental

Former Karawanken Railway Tunnel Workers' Hospital

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Former Karawanken Railway Tunnel Workers' Hospital

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Location: St. Jakob im Rosental, Bezirk Villach-Land, Carinthia, Austria

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May 20, 2023

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It was built as a hospital for the men who built the Karawankenbahn tunnel a few hundred meters away between 1901 and 1906. They had a dangerous job. There were always rockfalls or flooding, sometimes with fatal consequences. The victims were buried in a specially created cemetery on the hill behind the hospital. In 1903 a chapel was built there. On the Carinthian side alone, more than 2000 people worked on the construction site of the century.

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