!!!Pöllau

Poellau, Styria, market in the district of Hartberg, 
alt. 425 m, pop. 1,999, 
area 4.62 km%%sup 2/%, in the valley basin of the Poellauer 
Saifen river, east Styria, in the Poellautal Nature Park (since 1983, 
area 120 km%%sup 2/%). - Federal Armed Forces field agency, 
Landwehr camp of the Federal Armed Forces, day-care home of the 
Lebenshilfe organisation; wood processing, building trade, textile 
factory, orchards; cloth-making industry ("Poellau Loden") 
until the 19%%sup th/%  century. - First documented mention 
around 1163; former Abbey of Augustinian Canons Regular (1482-1785) 
with collegiate church (today parish church), built between 1701 and 
1712 by J. Carlone and R. Horner, an outstanding example of Styrian 
Baroque and a replica of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, frescoes 
by M. v. Goerz, altar-piece by J. A. Moelk (1778 and 1779), 
J. C. Hackhofer ("Queen of the Rosary", in 1722) and M. 
Altomonte (1725), stone pietà (around 1420); collegiate church 
and palace with new vestry (in 1720, cavetto vault and frescoes by M. 
v. Goerz, in 1723), old cupboards (17%%sup th/%  century) and 
wood portal; Calvary with Sacred Heart chapel (1699, enlarged in 1750, 
fresco by Moelk) and Heart of Mary chapel (1715); column dedicated to 
the Virgin Mary (1681); town hall with pillory (around 1600); many 
beautiful old houses (16%%sup th/%  to the 19%%sup th/% 
 century); local heritage museum (1910).

!Literature
Kulturreferat der Marktgemeinde Poellau (ed.), Poellau in 
Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, 1977; B. Brandstetter, Alt-Poellau 
Geschichtenbuch, 1980; G. Allmer, Geschichte des Marktes Poellau, 
1993.


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