Niederwölz#

Niederwoelz, Styria, municipality in the district of Murau, alt. 748 m, pop. 654, area 10.26 km2, situated at the confluence of Woelzer Bach stream and River Mur/Mura. Niederwoelz power station (private); concrete block works - First documented mention 1234; parish church (first documented mention 1335), Romanesque rectangular construction with Gothic choir (1447) and vault that has been redecorated in Baroque style, wall and ceiling frescoes by J. A. Moelk (1778), wooden statue of St. Maximilian (around 1450), 7 Baroque statues (second quarter of the 18th century) from the workshop of B. Prandtstaetter; in the Woelzertal valley, mansion built by a family of bourgeois ironworks owners (1694, altered in 1889).

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