!!!Mariahof

Mariahof, Styria, municipality in the district of Murau, alt. 
963 m, pop. 1,324, area 32.71 km%%sup 2/%, Summer resort 
(37,084 overnight stays) situated on the Neumarkter Sattel Pass (alt. 
894 m). - Recreation home (Villa Barbara), power supply centre 
(private), Pichlschloss rehabilitation centre; timber processing, 
gravel works; ornithological research centre situated on  Furtnerteich 
Pond (nature reserve). - Late Gothic parish church (first documented 
mention in 1066, present church building dating from the 14%%sup th/%  
century), was destroyed, and rebuilt and fortified between 1482 and 
1511, nave redesigned in the Baroque style (1679-1681), impressive 
church tower, splendid high altar (after 1627) with a Gothic statue of 
the Virgin, side altars (dating from the second half of the 
17%%sup th/%  century), crucifixion group including a Late Gothic 
crucifix (around 1500-1510), panel painting of St. Beatrice (around 
1520); Romanesque-Baroque church of St. Nicholas, Baroque interior, 
two Roman tombstones set into the church walls, church bells (dating 
around 1300, the 16%%sup th/%  century.).


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