Gurk
Gurk is an Austrian market town and former episcopal see in the District of Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia. As of 1 January 2025, Gurk has a population of 1,178.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 1,250 residents
- Description: municipality in St. Veit/Glan District, Carinthia, Austria
- Also known as: “20508” and “Gurk, Carinthia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gurk Cathedral and Freithofer Berg.
Gurk Cathedral
Church
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Gurk Cathedral is a Romanesque pillar basilica in Gurk, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The former cathedral and current co-cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Gurk was built from 1140 to 1200.
Volksschule und Kindergarten
School
Photo: Johann Jaritz, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
Volksschule und Kindergarten is a school.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Straßburg.
Straßburg
Town
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Straßburg is a town in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia, Austria. Straßburg is situated 6 km northeast of Gurk.
Gurk
- Categories: market municipality and municipality of Austria
- Location: Sankt Veit an der Glan District, Carinthia, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Gurk” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Գուրկ”
- Basque: “Gurk”
- Belarusian: “Гурк”
- Bulgarian: “Гурк”
- Catalan: “Gurk”
- Cebuano: “Gurk (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Gurk”
- Chechen: “Гурк”
- Chinese: “古尔克”
- Czech: “Gurk”
- Dutch: “Gurk”
- Esperanto: “Gurk”
- Estonian: “Gurk”
- French: “Gurk”
- Friulian: “Gurk”
- German: “Gurk”
- Hungarian: “Gurk”
- Irish: “Gurk”
- Italian: “Gurk”
- Japanese: “グルク”
- Kazakh: “Gwrk”
- Kazakh: “Гурк”
- Kazakh: “گۋرك”
- Ladin: “Gurk”
- Lombard: “Gurk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gurk”
- Persian: “گورک کارینتیا”
- Polish: “Gurk”
- Portuguese: “Gurk”
- Russian: “Гурк”
- Serbian: “Гурк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gurk”
- Slovak: “Gurk”
- Slovenian: “Gurk”
- Slovenian: “Krka na Koroškem”
- Slovenian: “Krka, Avstrija”
- Slovenian: “Krka, Koroška”
- Slovenian: “Krka”
- Spanish: “Gurk”
- Swedish: “Gurk”
- Tatar: “Гурк”
- Turkish: “Gurk”
- Ukrainian: “Гурк”
- Venetian: “Gurk”
- Vietnamese: “Gurk, Sankt Veit an der Glan”
- Volapük: “Gurk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gurk”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kolbenkopf and Gurktal.
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