!!!Hohentauern, Gemeinde

Hohentauern, Styria, municipality in the district of Judenburg, alt. 
1,274 m, pop. 616, area 91.96 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal 
tourism (56,292 overnight stays), mining community on the Hohentauern 
Pass, highest point of the Tauernstrasse road. Graphite mining on the 
Kaiserberg until 1993, magnesite mining in the "Sunk" ravine until 
1991. Trade route since Roman times; St. Bartholomew parish 
church (14%%sup th/%  century) with carved high altar (around 
1750) by J. T. Stammel, choir (around 1490).


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