!!!Ilz

Ilz, Styria, market town in the district of Fuerstenfeld, alt. 
299 m, pop. 2,451, area 24.80 km%%sup 2/%; located in the 
Ilztal Valley northwest of Fuerstenfeld. - Local motorway maintenance 
depot; cultural centre; wood processing (saw mills, manufactures of 
furniture, crates and boxes, etc.); asphalt works; broad range of 
commercial businesses; wine, fruit, tobacco and hop growing (fruit 
storehouse); industrial park (the establishment of an industrial 
estate covering an area of 30,000 m%%sup 2/% is planned); coal 
mining between 1800 and 1964. - Parish church with high altar dating 
from 1783, originally built in Gothic style and altered in the 
17%%sup th/%  century and in 1910, column dedicated to the Virgin 
Mary; museum of local history; Feistritz Palace (built around 1200, 
enlarged and refined in 1570); palace chapel with altar dating from 
the Renaissance period; Karlsdorf Palace with arcaded courtyard (built 
between 1548 and 1579).

!Literature
K. Mayr, Ilz. Ein Heimatbuch, 1965.


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