Halbenrain#

Halbenrain, Styria, market town in the district of Radkersburg, alt. 223 m, pop. 1,946, area 38.55 km2, in southern Styria north-west of Radkersburg, close to the border with Slovenia. - Schools: landwirtschaftliche Fachschule (college of agriculture); customs authority department (in Unterpurkla); viniculture, manufacture and sale of furniture, concrete factory, mill and mixed feed mill, supraregional large-scale waste tip (domestic and industrial waste from all over Styria). - Baroque parish church (consecrated in 1717) with tomb of the Stuergkh family, Halbenrain Castle (re-construction 16th - 17th  century), largely renewed after a fire in 1767. "Natur- und heimatkundlicher Grenzlandspeicher" documentation centre.

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