!!!Fohnsdorf

Fohnsdorf, Styria, municipality in the district of Judenburg, alt. 736 
m, pop. 9,502, area 54.56 km%%sup 2/%, old mining region on the 
southwest edge of the Aichfeld plain, west of Knittelfeld. - 
Employment Services, educational centre, workers' community centre, 
electricity plant, Lorenzi Stadium, college for commercial 
occupations; the production sector dominates (59 % of those employed 
in 1991): printed circuit boards, plastic parts (casting), children's 
clothing, crane manufacturing (in Aichdorf), tunnel construction. The 
service sector plays a minor role (transport firms); Siemens AG 
training and business centre. - Mining museum and demonstration 
tunnels; the mining of lignite began in the 17%%sup th/%  century and 
stopped in 1978; F. formerly boasted the deepest brown coal mine shaft 
in the world (1,130 m), the shafthead frame (1855-1925) and a part of 
the machine room have been preserved. Romanesque parish church with 
late Gothic vaulted ceiling; remains of a castle ruin (in ruins since 
the 16%%sup th/%  century); moated Renaissance castle of Gabelhofen in 
the Aichfeld plain (1548, renovated and converted into a hotel).

!Literature
H. Burgstaller, F. Erlebte Geschichte, 1984; W. Pickl, 
Entwicklung, Gegenwart und Zukunftsaussichten der Gemeinde Fohnsdorf, 
doctoral thesis, Graz 1978; W. Brunner, F. Rueckblick in die 
Vergangenheit - Ausblick in die Zukunft, 1992.


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