!!!Liezen

Liezen, Styria, town in the district of Liezen, alt. 664 m, pop. 
7,051, area 56.36 km%%sup 2/%, main town of the Styrian Ennstal 
valley near the mouth of the River Pyhrnbach, where the road leading 
over the Pyhrnpass pass branches off. - District authorities, district 
court, forestry commission; building authority, job centre, inland 
revenue office and surveyor´s office, camp of the Federal Armed 
Forces, Economic Chamber, Chamber of Labour, district Chamber of 
Agriculture and Forestry, regional health insurance office, several 
advisory centres, public library. Schools: Handelsakademie (commercial 
academy), Bundesanstalt fuer Kindergartenpaedagogik (kindergarten 
teacher training institute). Since 1981 central refuse processing 
plant. Newspaper: "Liezen Bezirksnachrichten". Commuting area with 
4,898 employees (1991), including about 62 % in services (mainly 
in trade: shopping centres, wood shops, do-it-yourself store, etc.), 
mechanical engineering, plaster plate works (in Weissenbach), some 
tourism. - Roman post station "Stiriate", documented mention 1074 as 
"Luecen"; town since 1947; parish church with late Gothic elements, 
enlarged 1911/12, high altar panel by M. J. Schmidt (1777), 
Baroque Kalvarienberg church, town hall (1907).

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. VI, part 3, Die Staedte der 
Steiermark, 1990.


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