Klagenfurt for the 2006 Winter Olympics and is home to an American Football team, the Carinthian Black Lions, competing in the First League of the Austrian Football League. The Black Lions attract fans from all over Carinthia, playing home games in both Klagenfurt and Villach. Klagenfurt is twinned with the following towns and cities. Klagenfurt Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (; , , ) is the capital of the federal state of Carinthia in Austria. With a population of 100,316 (January 1, 2018), it is the sixth-largest city in the country. The city is the bishop's seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Villach was Oskar Kraus, an enthusiastic Nazi. On 9 November 1938 Villach was a site of the nationwide "Kristallnacht" pogroms with violent attacks on the Jewish population. A memorial for the 1919 border conflict that led to the Carinthian Plebiscite caused controversy when it was inaugurated in 2002, as Kraus, who had not been especially prominent in the conflict, was the only person named. During World War II, allied forces bombed Villach 37 times. About 42,500 bombs killed 300 people and damaged 85% of the buildings. Nevertheless, the city quickly recovered. Today, Villach is a bustling city with commerce and recreation,