Scheifling#
Scheifling, Styria, market town in the district of Murau, alt. 762 m, pop. 1,616, area 15.36 km2, situated in the upper Mur valley north-west of the Perchauer Sattel pass. - Two materials depots (Department of Agriculture of the Provincial Government of Styria, Forestry Service for Mountain Torrent and Avalanche Control), road maintenance department; construction companies, steel construction industry (trapezoidal sheeting, mechanical and systems engineering), transportation companies, fulling mill and organ maker. - Parish church with Romanesque core and Baroque aisles and nave, high altar with statues (around 1737) by B. Prandtstaetter, Gothic reliefs (around 1490) and late Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary; plague chapel (1715), late Gothic wayside chapel; ruins of Schachenturm Castle; old taverns (one of which was the former hunting lodge of Emperor Maximilian I (around 1500).