!!!Friedberg

Friedberg, Styria, town in the district of Hartberg, alt. 600 m, pop. 
2,772, area 25.84 km%%sup 2/%, on the outskirts of the Joglland region 
on the border to Burgenland, formerly on the Hungarian border. - 
District court, sanitation board of the District Commission, office of 
the health and social insurance agency, vocational school for rural 
home economics; production of leather buttons and chairs (Thonethaus 
centre with bentwood furniture manufactured by the company), some 
tourism. - The building of the town was allegedly financed by Duke 
Leopold V with the ransom money paid for King  Richard I (Lionheart) 
in 1094. It was often destroyed by Hungarians and Turks; in the 
17%%sup th/%  century the city became known for cloth-making; late 
Gothic parish church (built around 1450, redesigned in Baroque style 
after 1682) with two Roman stones (2%%sup nd/%  century A.D.); Baroque 
column dedicated to the Virgin Mary (1809).

!Literature
Stadtgemeinde Friedberg (ed.), Festschrift zur 
700-Jahrfeier der Stadt Friedberg 1252-1952, 1952.


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