!!!Irdning

Irdning, Styria, market town in the district of Liezen, alt. 
673 m, pop. 2,490, area 21.95 km%%sup 2/%, traffic junction 
(Stainach-Irdning) in the upper Ennstal valley, at the end of the 
Donnersbachtal valley. - Local court, Federal Research Institute for 
Alpine Agriculture (Bundesversuchsanstalt fuer alpenlaendische 
Landwirtschaft) in Gumpenstein Palace (17%%sup th/%  century), Hoehere 
Bundeslehranstalt fuer alpenlaendische Landwirtschaft (secondary 
school of alpine agriculture), festival hall; wood processing industry 
(sawmill, carpenter shops, log houses), construction industry, summer 
tourism (39,153 overnight stays). - Gothic parish church (1453-1458) 
with Baroque extensions (1737-1740); Capuchin monastery (since 1711) 
in the former Falkenburg hunting lodge (built 1615); former place of 
execution with gallows chapel (16%%sup th/%  or 17%%sup th/%  
centuries); Irdninger Moos flood plain on the River Enns. Nearby, 
village of Stainach with tithe storehouse (1597), Niederhofen filial 
church with frescoes (around 1500), Friedstein Palace (1595-1613), 
Pichlarn Palace (1551, hotel since 1992).

!Literature
R. Wernbacher, Geschichte des Bez. Irdning, 1950; W. 
Brunner, Irdning. Geschichte eines obersteirischen Marktes, 1990.


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