!!!Fürstenfeld

Fuerstenfeld, Styria, town in the district of Fuerstenfeld, alt. 276 
m, pop. 6,024, area 15.16 km%%sup 2/%, principal town in eastern 
Styria, situated on the River Feistritz near the Burgenland border. - 
District Commission, district court, Employment Services, Vocational 
Training Institute, Chamber of Labour, Economic Chamber, district 
Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry, River Regulation Board, Office of 
Weights, Measures and Surveying, health and social insurance office, 
hospital, youth centre, psychosocial advisory centre, social health 
office, residential home, multi-purpose complex, largest (outdoor) 
swimming facility in Europe (lap pool, 25 x 50 m; recreational pool 
320 x 80 m), club aerodrome, golf course, school types include 
Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium, vocational school for trade 
and commerce, trade school. 4,167 gainfully employed persons (1991), 
53 % of whom in the service sector (especially private, social and 
public services as well as trade, transportation firms); production 
sector: tobacco factory (oldest in Austria, since 1776), manufacturing 
of cigarette paper, electronics industry, plastics processing, 
production of furniture, lamps and compressors, steel construction, 
brick industry, beer depots, slaughterhouse.

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Fuerstenfeld was established around 1170 as an eastern border defence 
town, significant in the Middle Ages for trade; fortification 
(renovated in 1533) partially preserved (city moat, portion of city 
wall, Hungarian Bastion, Castle Bastion and Moehl Bastion, Graz gate); 
Baroque parish church (1772-1774); former commandery (after 1200) of 
the Hospitallers (oldest in Austria); former church of Augustinian 
Hermits (1365-1368), monastery (demolished in 1956), now a hall; 
Protestant church (1908-1910); former Prince's castle, converted into 
tobacco factory in 1776; Pfeilberg Freihaus (14%%sup th/%  and 
16%%sup th/%  centuries); Wilfersdorf Freihaus (Old City Hall, 1570); 
Baroque column dedicated to the Virgin Mary (1664) on the main square; 
city museum.

!Literature
H. Pirchenegger and S. Reichl, Geschichte der Stadt und 
des Bez. Fuerstenfeld, 1952.


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