!!!Gaal Gaal, Styria, municipality in the district of Knittelfeld, alt. 900 m, pop. 1,585, area 197.36 km%%sup 2/%, situated on the southern side of the Niedere Tauern mountains. Parish church with Romanesque tower erected over the choir and late-Baroque nave; Wasserberg castle (built in 1274, modifications in the middle of the 19%%sup th/% century). The Gaal Crucifix, 236 cm high and produced in Swabia around 1160-1170 was a roadside cross in G. until 1930 and is now in the Ferdinandeum provincial museum, Innsbruck; with its side figures, the Virgin and St John the Evangelist (in Seckau), it was the oldest monumental crucifix group of the German-speaking countries. !Literature B. Roth, Seckau. Geschichte und Kultur, 1964. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Gaal|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]