!!!Gratkorn

Gratkorn, Styria, market town in the district of Graz-Umgebung, alt. 
380 m, pop. 6,113, area 34.59 km%%sup 2/%, industrial town 
in the north-west of Graz, on the eastern bank of the River Mur/Mura. 
- Hackher barracks, Maria-Rast convent (order of the Puellae 
Caritatis), sports stadium, around 61 % of the 2,173 workforce 
(1991) are employed in the manufacturing and processing industries: 
paper and cellulose production, galvanisation, wood-processing 
industry, production of bitumen, retail outlet for fork-lift trucks of 
the Oesterreichische Schiffswerften AG, Schattleiten industrial estate 
with quarry, concrete works, crane hire, traditional costumes factory, 
printing works, lift production. - Baroque parish church (around 
1700). Starting point for trips to the Dultbach Valley, to the Hohe 
Rannach Mountain (1,018 m, Alpinum) and to the Kesselfallklamm 
Gorge (38m-waterfall, in the municipality of Semriach). Small stone 
(microlithes) and bone finds as well as an antler fragment with a 
stylised depiction of an animal (snake?) dating from the Middle Stone 
Age (8000-6000/5000 B.C.) from the Zigeunerhoehle Cave.

!Literature
P. Cede, Die wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und 
siedlungsgeographischen Wandlungserscheinungen in der Marktgemeinde 
Gratkorn seit der Aufnahme des franzisceischen Katasters, doctoral 
thesis, Graz 1984.


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