Niklasdorf#

Niklasdorf, Styria, municipality in the district of Leoben, alt. 521 m, pop. 2,987 (1981: 3,349), area 15.16 km2, on the River Mur/Mura east of Leoben. - Cultural centre, leisure park, seminar hotel, Institute of Economic Promotion (WIFI) with education centre, "Upper Styria" technology park and Leoben laser centre (high technology firms); various industrial enterprises: transport, service industries, tourism, toxic waste processing plant, paper-mill for the production of special papers, production of anticorrosive agents, wood processing, building industry. - Old late-Gothic parish church used until 1971, new church by J. Hinger (1969-1971) into which parts of the interior of the old church were integrated.