Oberzeiring#
Oberzeiring, Styria, market town in the district of Judenburg, alt. 932 m, pop. 991, area 38.23 km2, located on the banks of Blahbach River, at the eastern foot of the Woelzer Tauern mountains. - Asthma clinic with medicinal gallery in the former silver mine, show mine with mining museum since 1956, spa resort. - Formerly the largest Styrian silver mine, mining dates back to prehistoric times, mine disaster in 1365, in the 18th and 19th centuries some extraction of iron ore. Parish church (core in late Gothic style, later adaptations, furnishings in neo-Gothic style); cemetery church in early Gothic style (Miners´ Church) with Gothic cycle of frescoes (around 1340-1350) and high altar (18th century) by B. Prandtstaetter; Calvary church (1857-1860); old burghers' houses in the town centre dating back to the 16th /17th centuries.