!!!Dobl

Dobl, Styria, municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung, alt. 
330 m, pop. 1,298. (1981: pop. 1,106), area 
13.65 km%%sup 2/%, on the Doblbach river south of Graz, between 
the Kaiserwald woods and the Kainach river. Economic structure 
dominated by manufacturing trade (production of containers, sheep-wool 
weavery); Transmitter station with 156-m tower, erected in 1942 and 
used again after 1995 (by "Antenne Steiermark", the first Austrian 
private radio station). - Parish church with late Romanesque core 
(first documented in 1219, former castle chapel), Baroque and 
neo-Romanesque alterations and additional buildings as well as Rococo 
furnishings (endowed by Maria Theresia in 1760). The "Gjaidhof", built 
in the 13%%sup th/%  century by the Babenberg dynasty, was later used 
as imperial hunting lodge, altered in Renaissance style 1568-70, 
further alterations in the 19%%sup th/%  century.

!Literature
J. Spann, Geschichte der Pfarre Dobl bei Graz, 1978.


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