!!!Hartberg

Hartberg, Styria, town in the district of Hartberg, alt. 359 m, 
pop. 6,169, area 21.51 km%%sup 2/%, at the foot of the Ringkogel 
mountain (789 m), close to the border with Burgenland, in the 
hilly country of eastern Styria. - District Commission, district 
court, Employment Services, local tax office, Federal Office of 
Weights, Measures and Surveying, local health and social insurance 
office, Chamber of Labour, Economic Chamber, district Chamber of 
Agriculture and Forestry, woodland gardens of the provincial 
government of Styria, provincial home for young people, hospital, 
psycho-social counselling centre, Hartberg hall; schools: 
Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium (secondary school), 2 vocational 
schools, commercial college, Fachschule fuer wirtschaftliche Berufe 
(commercial college), Bundesanstalt fuer Kindergartenpaedagogik 
(kindergarten teachers´ training college), education centre of 
the Vocational Training Institute. 5,475 employed persons (1991), 
61 % work in the service sector (particularly personal, social 
and public services and commerce) industry and trade: metal-working, 
textiles, synthetics, spectacle frames, print shop, foods and 
beverages, construction companies. Summer tourism (29,399 overnight 
stays). - Earliest settlements were pre-historic and Roman, west of 
Hartberg near Loeffelbach (municipality of Hartberg-Umgebung), 
preserved foundations of a Roman estate measuring about 
50 x 60 m. 1125-1128 Hartberg was founded and laid out 
by Styrian Margrave Leopold I, first documented mention as town 
1286; late-Gothic parish church (first documented mention 1157), 
1745-1760 extensions, frescoes by J. A. Moelk, high altar (1766, 
remains of a Roman structure from 200 A.D. and a pier basilica of 
the 12%%sup th/%  century underneath); late-Romanesque charnel 
house (before 1167) with frescoes (around 1200); Capuchin church and 
monastery (founded 1654); Maria Lebing subsidiary church (1472, on 
Roman cemetery) with elaborate frescoes (1772) by J. A. Moelk; 
remains of the medieval city wall with corner tower (13%%sup th/%  - 
14%%sup th/%  centuries); museum (Roman stone lion from the 
2%%sup nd/%  century A.D.); Hartberg castle (medieval north 
tract, 16%%sup th/% /17%%sup th/%  centuries). Vintage Car 
Museum.

!Literature
F. Posch, Geschichte des Verwaltungsbez. Hartberg, 1978; 
Stadtgemeinde Hartberg (ed.), Festschrift 850 Jahre Hartberg, 1978; G. 
Hagen, Hartberg - eine Stadtgeographie, master´s thesis Graz, 
1988.


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