!!!Bruck an der Mur

Bruck an der Mur, Styria, town in the district of Bruck an der Mur 
(1277), alt. 491 m, pop. 14,046 (in 1981: pop. 15,068), area 
38.40 km%%sup 2/%; traffic junction at the confluence of the Rivers 
Muerz and Mur/Mura, situated along the ancient road where salt and 
iron were transported. - District council, district court, tax office, 
Employment Services, district forest inspection, district agency of 
public works, Economic Chamber, Chamber of Labour, District and 
Provincial Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry, health and social 
insurance office, applied municipal ecology advisory service, 
hospital, Poeglhof therapeutic centre for disabled people, municipal 
museum, sports hall, Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium secondary 
schools, commercial academy (HAK), private training centre for 
kindergarten teachers (run by an order of nuns), federal secondary 
school of forestry (HBLA fuer Forstwirtschaft); service sector 
(particularly trade) predominant, in 1991 around 63 % of 7,945 
employed people worked in the paper industry; production of wires and 
cables, fitting shop, tyre retreading, recycling; wide range of 
trading firms.

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First documented mention in 860, rebuilt in 1263 by Přemysl  
Otakar II, thriving economy in the Middle Ages due to grain, iron 
and salt trades. Reconstructed after a large fire in 1792, remains of 
the fortification (ring-wall, castle gate and tower) still extant. 
Parish church (around 1272) with Gothic choir, late Gothic nave and 
wrought-iron vestry door (around 1500), classicist high altar; former 
Grey Friars' monastery church (1272-1295, closed in 1782) with 
frescoes (around 1380; 15%%sup th/%  century frescoes in the 
cloister); Romanesque-Gothic St. Ruprecht church (first 
documented mention before 1195, parish church until 1545) with Gothic 
choir (1415/16) and Last Judgement fresco (around 1416); Romanesque 
circular charnel house (since 1931 War Memorial chapel) on the 
cemetery; Kornmesserhaus (1495-1505, impressive Gothic town house 
built for the guildsman P. Kornmess) on the town square fronted by a 
wrought-iron well (1626); column of the Virgin Mary (1710); town hall 
(late Gothic core, façade after 1792). Museum, Apothecary House 
and arcaded courtyard (early 16%%sup th/%  century); ruins of 
Landskron Castle (first documented mention in 1265 under the name of 
"castrum prukke", destroyed in 1792; castle gate and bell tower still 
extant).

!Literature
W. Strahalm, Bruck an der Mur von den Anfaengen bis zur 
Gegenwart, 1987; idem, Bruck an der Mur - Eine Stadtgeschichte, 1997.


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