!!!Mureck

Mureck, Styria, town in the district of Radkersburg, alt. 237 m, 
pop. 1,585, area 5.00 km%%sup 2/%, on the left bank of the River 
Mur/Mura, at the border to Slovenia. - Local court, employment 
services, forest guard station, customs post, highway maintenance 
depot of the Federal and Provincial Highway Administration Office, 
chamber of agricultural and allied workers, district health and social 
insurance office (registration office), sports centre, youth and 
cyclists hostels, Kolpingheim centre, "Lebenshilfe" and "Volkshilfe" 
(associations engaged in life counselling and welfare), several 
secondary schools such as Bundesanstalt for kindergarten paedagogics, 
Fachschule for economic professions, vocational school; textile 
factory, electrical wire production plant, dairy. First documented 
mention 1187, destroyed by the Turks 1532, town status 1975. - Late 
Gothic parish church (1770-1780), high altar with figural decoration 
(after 1767) by P. J. Straub; Baroque Chapel of St. Patritius 
(1740); town hall with clock tower (built 1669, landmark of the town) 
and sand-stone reliefs (16%%sup th/%  century); Trinity column (1738); 
plague column (1665-1668). Mureck castle stands on Slovenian 
territory.

!Literature
G. Kodolitsch, Murecker Kunstgeschichtlicher Stadtfuehrer, 
ed. on the occasion of the granting of a charter 1976, 1976.


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