page_title: Feld am See
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Feld am See / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Luterian church in Feld am See Deutsch: Evangelische Kirche in Feld am See
context_page_description: Feld am See is a municipality in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
context_section_description: The hidden Gegend was not populated until the High Middle Ages, when about 1300 its sunny northern side was stubbed and the name of the valley was first mentioned in a 1308 deed. While large estates were held by the Carinthian Counts of Ortenburg, the village called Rauth (from German: Roden, root out) was the most important settlement in the whole area for a long time. 
  The settlement of Feld am See itself arose with the construction of a Protestant parish church in 1787. The remote Gegend valley had long been a centre of Crypto-protestantism, until the 1781 Patent of Toleration issued by Emperor Joseph II ended the Counter-Reformation persecutions. 
  The lake called Brennsee was named after a local tavern and distillery (Brenn) which was founded in 1632. The present-day municipality was established in 1850; an elementary school was founded one year later. In the late 19th century summer tourism around the lake started. Between 1973 and 1991 Feld am See and neighbouring Afritz am See were united to a single municipality.
caption: Protestant church
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