!!!Mürzzuschlag

Muerzzuschlag, Styria, town in the district of Muerzzuschlag, alt. 
669 m, pop. 9,990, area 19.26 km%%sup 2/%, principal town in 
the Muerz Valley, at the south-western foot of Semmering mountain; 
first place in Styria to practice sport of alpine skiing - District 
commission, local court, employment services, tax office and office of 
weights and measures, highway maintenance depot of the Federal and 
Provincial Highway Administration Office, economic chamber, chamber of 
labour, district chamber for agriculture and forestry, district health 
and social insurance office, hospital, counselling centre, 
"Lebenshilfe" and "Volkshilfe" (associations engaged in 
life-counselling and welfare), youth centre, workshop of "Jugend am 
Werk" (non-profit organization taking care of young people and 
handicapped persons), town library, Brahms Museum, Museum 
Muerzzuschlag (international museum of winter-sports and local history 
and culture), Volkshaus community centre, several types of secondary 
schools such as Bundes-Gymnasium and Bundes-Realgymnasium, 
Handelsakademie (commercial academy), transformer station and water 
works. The formerly industrial town has undergone massive structural 
change: today service sector predominant (about 58 % of 4,220 
persons employed in 1991, mainly personal, social and public services, 
trade); declining production sector (iron and metal processing 
industries, e.g. beer barrel production, wood processing) despite new 
industrial park with numerous enterprises. - First documented mention 
1227, ironworking centre since the Middle Ages; since the construction 
of the  Semmering Railway important railway junction and industrial 
area, status of town from 1924. - Parish church (rebuilt, 1767-1774, 
J. Hueber), with Gothic tower (6 storeys), figurative stained glass 
windows (1890), imposing Rococo high altar and lay altar (1682) with 
foliage ornamentation; Protestant Heilandskirche (Church of the 
Saviour, 1900); Brahms House (middle of 16%%sup th/%  century); trade 
house (1792 former Franciscan Church (1648-1657, profaned 1798, now 
art centre); Rosegger Fountain (1933).

!Literature
J. Spitaler, Muerzzuschlags Vergangenheit, 1942; idem, 
Muerzzuschlag im Lichte der Zeit, 1951.


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