The district of Feldkirchen is home to small and medium-sized businesses as well as to wood processing companies with an international reputation.
The district of Feldkirchen covers 559 square kilometres and is a major pivotal and focal hub in the Central Carinthian region. Almost 30,000 have created a life here. The region stretches from the Gurktal Alps in the north and from the Gurk valley to the Klagenfurt Basin and to Lake Ossiacher See in the southwest.
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With 50 years of international experience, the HIRSCH Servo Group is the leading manufacturer and market leader in the EPS and EPP industry. With a total of 30 production sites in nine European countries and sales and service offices in China and America, the HIRSCH Servo Group is excellently positioned. 1,700 motivated employees in both business sectors ensure the company’s steady success.
Hirsch Group
HASLINGER STAHLBAU was established in 1949. Today the business counts as one of the highest-performing steel construction companies in Europe, implementing the visions of international clients. The company, based in Feldkirchen, employs around 450 people at five locations in Austria, Germany and Hungary.
Haslinger Stahlbau
In the past 110 years, this once small family business from Gnesau has developed into Europe’s leading manufacturer of balconies and fences. Responsible for the success of the Carinthian company are more than 200 employees. With their well-founded specialist knowledge and passion, they steadily drive innovation in production and processing. Using local wood and aluminium, customised balcony railings and fences are and have been produced for more than 100,000 satisfied customers.
Leeb Balkone
Originally focused on the development of the manufacture of phytotherapeutic and complex homeopathic medicines, today Richard Bittner AG is a modern, research-based pharmaceutical company. At the Feldkirchen plant a wide product portfolio of high-quality medicines, dietary supplements and medical products in liquid and solid form are manufactured.
Richard Bittner AG
The Chamber of Commerce district office Feldkirchen brings the concentrated service and know-how of the Carinthian Chamber of Commerce to your doorstep. The tasks of the district office include, among other things, active interest driven politics with the aim of improving the economic framework, addressing regional political issues, ensuring member-oriented services and representing and safeguarding the interests of its members.
Wirtschaftskammer Kärnten
Variety enriches life and variety is passion, pure and genuine. Discover the true value of passion. The Marketplace “Marktplatz Mittelkärnten” is a sensuous foray, which allows you to experience this fascinating region in all its facets. Quality-oriented premium producers, honest and diverse catering and accommodation, agricultural businesses, real craftsmanship, committed winegrowers, beer brewers and creative refiners have turned the marketplace into a desirable spot for nature lovers and pleasure seekers. Here, the topic of regionality is a top priority.
Marktplatz Mittelkärnten
The LEADER -Region Central Carinthia with 33 municipalities and 97,072 inhabitants is located in the middle of Carinthia. It covers approx. 2,102.603 km², from the Saualpe over the Gurktal Alps to the Nockberg mountains and includes the district of St. Veit/Glan with the district capital, municipalities in the district of Feldkirchen and the district capital and four municipalities in the political district of rural Klagenfurt: Magdalensberg, Maria Saal, Moosburg and Grafenstein. The LAG Central Carinthia is run as a limited liability company (Ltd.). The sole shareholder of RM Regional Management Central Carinthia Ltd. is the association “Regionalentwicklung kärnten:mitte“, which is divided into the four regional associations “Norische Region”, “Kärntner Holzstrasse – Region Nockberge”, “Hemmaland” and “Glantal”. The members of the Ltd. are the 33 member-municipalities.
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Thanks to its geographic location, Feldkirchen is the ideal starting point for exploring the state of Carinthia. The foothills of the Nockberg Mountains make the landscape an El Dorado for hikers and cyclists. The idyllic bathing lakes in the region offer young and old a welcome opportunity to cool off and in winter they invite us to ice skate or play ice hockey. For skiers, snowboarders or cross-country skiers Feldkirchen is also the perfect starting point – many large ski-regions as well as real hidden gems are only a few minutes’ drive away from each other.
Franz Gerdl/Tourismusregion Nockberge
When it comes to education the region has dedicated itself to a topic that could not be more future-oriented: The Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Feldkirchen is dedicated exclusively to the sectors health and social services. The bandwidth ranges from “social work” to “biomedical analysis” – combined with an active focus on practical experience. The Diakonie de La Tour public hospital in Waiern is located above the district capital Feldkirchen. Around 100 employees look after 62 patients in three departments: internal medicine, acute geriatrics and psychosomatics.
FH Kärnten
Managing Director MMag. Gunter Brandstätter
RM Regionalmanagement Mittelkärnten GmbH, Unterer Platz 10, 9300 St. Veit/Glan
+43 (0) 4212 45607
Motorway Connection
Tauern motorway A10: 21 km | S37: 26km | A2 Southern motorway: 21 km
Rail
Feldkirchen is right between the St. Veit/Glan and Villach transport junctionsand is therefore ideally connected to the international rail network.
Airports
Klagenfurt: 26 km | Ljubljana: 100 km | Graz: 142 km | Trieste: 189 km | Salzburg: 200 km | Linz: 252 km | Vienna: 314 km
Franz Gerdl/Tourismusregion Nockberge
