!!!Birkfeld

Birkfeld, Styria, market town in the district of Weiz, alt. 623 m, 
pop. 1,688, area 4.26 km%%sup 2/%, situated in the Upper Feistritz 
valley. - District court, district commission, Regional Chamber of 
Agriculture and Forestry, local branch of the regional health 
insurance institution, BORG (separate upper-level academic secondary 
school), school of domestic science; production of tools, textiles and 
animal food, some trade. - Fortified parish church (first documented 
mention in 1295), renovated from 1709-1715 by R. Horner; Gothic tower 
from the former fortification; Gothic charnel house, now a chapel; 
Birkenstein Castle (built around 1555 from of a number of town 
houses); gallows (17%%sup th/%  century); Ringhof farms, with a 
ring-like arrangement of building and open fireplaces.

!Literature
G. Heiling, Die Marktgemeine Birkfeld im oberen 
Feistritztal, master's thesis, Graz 1993; R. Puschnig (ed.), 700 Jahre 
Markt Birkfeld, 1965.


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