!!!Bärnbach

Baernbach, Styria, town in the district of Voitsberg, alt. 424 m, 
pop. 5,160, area 17.14 km%%sup 2/%, lying in the Kainach Valley in the 
lignite mining district of Koeflach-Voitsberg. Castles museum, glass 
art centre and glass museum, sports hall, lignite mining, production 
of bricks, glassware, motor vehicles and catalytic converters, thermal 
station Voitsberg 3 (erected 1982, only partly in the municipality of 
Baernbach); modern parish church designed by F. Hundertwasser (1988), 
findings from Roman times on Heiliger Berg Mountain, subsidiary church 
St. Joachim and St. Anna (1660-1666), Calvary (1730-1740, Passion 
Groups by P. J. Straub), Carmelite convent, Storchenschloessl in 
Afling (mansion-house from the 17%%sup th/%  century).

!Literature
A. Seebacher-Mesaritsch, Baernbach. Das Werden einer 
Stadt, 1978.


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