!!!Judendorf-Straßengel

Judendorf-Strassengel, Styria, market town in the district of 
Graz-Umgebung, alt. 385 m, pop. 4,301 (1981: 3,729), area 
10.60 km%%sup 2/%, residential suburb north of Graz on the right 
bank of the River Mur/Mura, northwest of the Plabutsch Tunnel. - 
Clinic for internal illnesses; chemical plant, punching tool factory, 
tourism (23,774 overnight stays). - Documented mention as 
"Strazinolum" in 860; Gothic pilgrimage church (1346-1355), important 
High Gothic structure, formerly surrounded by fortified walls, 
three-storey tower (1355-1366) with elaborate stonemasonry, Gothic 
stained-glass windows (77 sections in all, 14%%sup th/%  century), 
neo-Gothic high altar (1885) made of white marble. Nearby: 
Plankenwarth Castle.


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