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StainzStainz, Styria, market town in the district of Deutschlandsberg, alt. 337 m, pop. 2,007, area 9.19 km2, situated on Stainzbach stream, in the south-west of Styria, which is especially favourable for wine and fruit-growing. - District court, agricultural trade and vocational school, department of the Joanneum Provincial Museum (Agricultural Collection), Motor Car Museum; meat products and fruit juice factory, dairy, summer tourism (20,093 overnight stays). - Former Augustinian Canons Regular monastery (around 1229-1785): former Baroque collegiate church, today parish and deanery church (reconstructed 1605-1629) with early Gothic west towers, elaborate stucco decoration and Baroque windows; former monastery (later Stainz Palace, present form 17th /18th century, acquired by Archduke Johann in 1840); Calvary Church (1732); narrow-gauge steam railway to Preding. Literature: H. Wilfinger, 800 Jahre Stainz, 1177-1977, 1979. References to other albums:
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