!!!Rottenmann

Rottenmann, Styria, town in the district of Liezen, alt. 681 m, 
pop. 5,431, area 112.51 km%%sup 2/%, located in the Paltental 
valley. - District court, regional health insurance institution, 
advice centre for social services, Pro-Juventute children´s 
village, hospital, school for social work, public library, Jugendforum 
centre, Volkshaus centre, Klamm power plant, combined heating and 
power station, electricity plant; 2,198 persons employed (1991), the 
production and service sectors are responsible for approximately half 
of all employment: factory for electrical appliances, building firms, 
factory for kitchen furniture, cable engineering. - The area around 
Rottenmann was presumably first settled by the Romans and was later 
inhabited by the Slavs. First documented mention in 927, laid out in 
the early 13%%sup th/%  century according to specific designs; parts 
of the city wall and the south tower housing a Gothic gateway have 
been preserved. - Former abbey of the Augustinian Canons Regular 
(1453-1785), late Gothic city parish church (1440) with frescoes 
dating from 1509, a magnificent, columned high altar with Rococo 
ornamentation, altar paintings (around 1777) by M. J. Schmidt and 
a marble pulpit (1513); hospital church (1446-51) with an impressive, 
columned high altar (around 1730-1740) and statues; old 
burghers´ houses (dating from 15%%sup th/% -17%%sup th/%  
centuries); located 1 km east in St. Georgen (also known as 
"Alt- Rottenmann") is Rottenmann's oldest church with a 
Romanesque core and a late Gothic winged altar (around 1520, 5 m 
high) from the workshop of L. Astl; Gruenpichl Castle (today used as a 
farm) and Thalhof Castle; Strechau Castle, located west of Rottenmann 
above the Paltental valley, erected around 1040 and altered from the 
15%%sup th/%  to the 17%%sup th/%  century; the courtyard contains 
Renaissance arcades and portals, the Great Hall has a stuccoed ceiling 
and is decorated with paintings depicting scenes from mythology, 
chapel (1579) with an extensive collection of Protestant paintings, 
altar (1690); a Romanesque church with late Gothic additions standing 
1,008 m high is located in Oppenberg, the high altar (approx. 1670) 
contains a late Gothic group of shrines (around 1485).

!Literature
F. Stockinger (compilation), 700 Jahre Stadt Rottenmann 
1279-1979, 1979.


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