!!!Altenmarkt bei St. Gallen

Altenmarkt bei St. Gallen, Styria, market town in the district of 
Liezen, alt. 467 m, pop. 1,001, area 43.26 km%%sup 2/%, 
business town in Ennstal Valley. - Timber processing, die casting 
works, Altenmarkt run-of-river power plant (140,000 MWh). - First 
documented 1335, located on the old Iron Road; hammer works (14th - 
15th centuries); town houses and hammer works owners' manor houses 
(16th - 17th centuries); Gothic-Baroque parish church (1793); 
Floesserkapelle (rafters' chapel) (1763-1764).

!Further reading
W. Grabensberger, Altenmarkt an der Enns, 1984.


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