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Neumann, Karl Eugen - Neusiedler AG (11/25)
Neumarkt im Mühlkreis Neumayer, Rudolf

Neumarkt in der Steiermark


Neumarkt in der Steiermark, Styria, market town in the district of Murau, alt 847m, pop. 1,913, area 5.14 km2, at the western foot of the Zirbitzkogel mountain (2,396m) to the southeast of the Neumarkter Sattel Pass. - District Court, Employment Services, regional health and social security agency; Villa Barbara provincial recreation centre, banqueting hall, trade school. Close by, army training area in the Seetaler Alpen mountains (municipality of Judenburg); dairy, metal processing, construction, wood processing, summer and winter tourism. - Forchtenstein Castle, constructed and fortified before 1224 (today, "Europahaus"), integrated into the partially preserved city walls (3 circular towers); late Gothic parish church (1492-1501) with tower (1914), high altar (1735-1740) by B. Prandstätter, side altar with late-Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary, Gothic ossuary (1438); column of the Virgin Mary (1717); 2-storey houses on the main square (some parts 16th - 17th century).


Literature: W. Brunner, Geschichte von Neumarkt in der Steiermark, 1985.


 
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