!!!Mürzsteg

Muerzsteg, Styria, municipality in the district of Muerzzuschlag, alt. 
782 m, pop. 652, area 108.58 km%%sup 2/%, tourist resort 
(43,345 overnight stays) at the entrance of the Dobrein stream into 
the Muerz Valley; near Veitsch mountain (Hohe Veitsch, 1,981 m). 
- Youth hostel, largest wooden playground in Europe, electric power 
station. - Parish church (1898); hunting lodge (1869, annexes from 
1879 and 1902) with trophy collection, where, in 1903, Emperor Franz 
Joseph and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia drafted the "Muerzsteg 
Punctation", a reform programme for the Ottoman Empire; since 1945 
summer residence of the Austrian Federal President; "Totes Weib" 
("Dead Woman") waterfall.


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