!!!Aflenz Kurort

Aflenz (health resort), Styria, market town in the district of Bruck 
an der Mur, alt. 763 m, pop. 1,028, area 16.09 km%%sup 2/%, 
climatic health resort and winter sports centre (92,333 overnight 
stays) on the pilgrimage route to Mariazell and at the southern foot 
of Hochschwab Mountain. - Rehabilitation centre (digestive and 
metabolic illnesses), hydrotherapy resort, double and triple 
chairlifts to the Buergeralm and Schoenleitenspitze mountains. 
Satellite station (1980). - Late Gothic church (1471-1510), Romanesque 
crucifix (12th century), altars from around 1770, paintings by 
J. A. Moelk (1774); late Gothic tower (1517), wayside shrine 
(around 1650), provost's residence (around 1600-1693), historical 
buildings (16th -19th centuries), Gewerkenhaus (mine owner's residence 
- 1800).

!Further reading
J. Riegler, Aflenz Kurort, Geschichte eines Marktes 
und Kurortes, 1990.


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