!!!Neuberg an der Mürz

Neuberg an der Muerz, Styria, market town (since 1996) in the district 
of Muerzzuschlag, alt. 730 m, pop. 1,676, area 
63.98 km%%sup 2/%, at the foot of the Schneealpe mountains. 
Forestry enterprise of the Oesterreichische Bundesforste AG (Austrian 
Federal Forests), waterworks (1st springwater pipeline to Vienna), 
Krampen and Fladenhofer Hoehe power stations; metal-processing 
industries, summer tourism (23,653 overnight stays); museum with 
hunting paraphernalia of Emperor Franz Joseph I (in the hunting 
lodge), Nature Museum. - Former Cistercian Abbey (founded in 1327 by 
Duke Otto the Merry, secularised in 1786), only Styrian Abbey that has 
preserved its mediaeval characteristics; former Collegiate church (now 
parish church, 14th - 15th century), enormous roof frame, beautiful 
Gothic tracery windows, Baroque west choir, large fresco in the shape 
of a winged altar (1505), high altar (1611/12, earliest important 
Styrian altar from the 17th century), famous "Neuberger Madonna" 
statue (14th century), additional Lady altar with sitting Madonna and 
Child (around 1440-1440), Loreto chapel with Rococo altar, pulpit 
(1670); cloister in the former Abbey (consecration 1344) with 
sculptures and St. Bernhard's chapel (14th century); former 
St. Anna church, built around 1420, deconsecrated in 1786, 
late-Gothic Assumption subsidiary church.

!Literature
O. Pickl and W. Kaneler, Geschichte des Ortes und Klosters 
Neuberg an der Muerz, 1996.


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