!!!Schladming

Schladming, Styria, town in the district of Liezen, alt. 749 m, 
pop. 4,377 (1981: pop. 3,918), area 10.30 km%%sup 2/%, 
bi-seasonal tourism (392,430 overnight stays in 1992, mainly in the 
winter), situated in the upper part of the Ennstal valley, where the 
Talbach stream joins the valley. - District court, local health and 
social insurance branch office, Dachstein-Tauern-Halle conference 
centre, social advice centre, Tauernhof Christian leisure centre for 
young people, commercial school and 4-year commercial school for 
skiers (private), skiing-oriented secondary school, provincial sports 
centre for school-children, multi-purpose hall, city library, 
Planai-Hochwurzen mountain railways (monocable ropeway and pulsed 
movement aerial ropeway); access to the skiing regions of Planai 
(1,906 m), Hochwurzen (1,849 m) and Dachstein (Hoher 
Dachstein mountain, 2,995 m); building trade, brewery. - First 
documented mention 1180, silver mining in the Middle Ages, initially 
given town status in 1322; from 1525 centre of Protestantism, in the 
Peasant´s Revolt of 1525 it supported the rebellious peasants 
and coalworkers, lost all its rights and was burnt down. 
Reconstruction began in1526; in 1529 Schladming was granted the right 
to hold markets; town status not regained until in 1925. - Together 
with the neighbouring Ramsau region it has remained a centre of 
Protestantism in Styria; Protestant church (1852-1862) with winged 
altar (around 1570); Catholic parish church (1522-1532) with 
late-Romanesque tower and magnificent high altar (1702-1704, statues 
by B. Prandtstaetter), chapel of St. Anne (charnel house, rebuilt 
1630); remains of town wall and Salzburger Tor gateway; old town 
houses (16%%sup th/%  century core); town hall (1886, formerly Coburg 
Palace); city museum; in Rohrmoos-Untertal mining gallery, educational 
mining trail (silver and lead mining). Venue of the Alpine ski world 
championship 1982 and of the World Winter Games for the disabled 
(Special Olympics) in 1993.

!Literature
W. Stipperger, Die Stadt Schladming, Festschrift zur 
50. Wiederkehr der 2. Stadterhebung, 1975; R. Schaeffer, Der 
obersteirische Bauern- und Knappenaufstand und der Ueberfall auf 
Schladming 1525, 1989.


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