!!!Deutschfeistritz

Deutschfeistritz, Styria, market town in the district of 
Graz-Umgebung, alt. 413 m, pop. 3,745, area 
39.21 km%%sup 2/%, north of Graz, where the Uebelbach stream 
flows into the River Mur/Mura. - Education centre, recreational 
facilities, forestry inspectorate, Stuebing SOS children's village, 
Peggau-Deutschfeistritz run-of-river power station (built in 1908, 
79,500 MWh, well-preserved historical power-station building), 
Schartnerkogel tunnel of the Pyhrn-Autobahn (motorway); wood 
manufacturing, machine and steel construction, fruit cultivation. 
Stuebing Austrian open-air museum (historical farmhouses and houses of 
craftsmen, farm buildings, chapels, etc. from all over Austria). - 
Former Roman settlement on the Kugelstein hill, remains of a Roman 
road, ore mining (particularly in the 18%%sup th/%  century); Gothic 
parish church (first documented in 1297), calvary (1695) with 
Crucifixion Group (after 1714), Thinnfeld Rococo palace (1761-1764) 
with frescoes by J. A. Moelk, Waldstein Castle, Stuebing Castle 
(Tudor Style, built in1863).

!Literature
S. Thaller, Die Marktgemeinde Deutschfeistritz: eine 
stadtgeographische Untersuchung, master's thesis, Graz 1989.


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