!!!Schwanberg

Schwanberg, Styria, market town in the district of Deutschlandsberg, 
alt. 427 m, pop. 2,135, area 12.00 km%%sup 2/%, summer 
tourist destination (19,837 overnight stays in 1992) at the source of 
the Schwarze Sulm River in the Koralpe region, south of 
Deutschlandsberg. - Provincial nursing home, facility for mud bath 
treatments, electric power station (private); plumbing workshop, 
metal-working industry. - Romanesque and late Gothic parish church 
with Gothic north chapel; former Capuchin church (consecrated 1714) 
and monastery (until 1969, 1971-1973 converted into a health centre 
for mud bath treatments); filial church of St. Joseph (1685); palace 
(around 1581, today a nursing home) with courtyard and arcades; 
Ackerbuerger half-timber houses (18%%sup th/% -19%%sup th/% 
 centuries) with beautiful façades; column dedicated to 
the Virgin Mary (1717).


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