!!!St. Johann bei Herberstein

St. Johann bei Herberstein, Styria, municipality in the district of 
Hartberg, alt. 421 m, pop. 291, 
area 2.85 km%%sup 2/%, at the end of the Feistritzklamm 
Gorge. - Haus der Frauen (recreation home and educational centre run 
by the diocese); wood processing, some summer tourism. - In the vestry 
of the parish church, (since 1655) frescoes (1730) by J. C. 
Hackhofer, painting of the Virgin of the Rosary (1726) by Mathias von 
Goertz, family tomb of the counts of Herberstein; Augustinian 
hermitage monastery 1652-1820, statue of the Virgin Mary (17%%sup th/% 
 century), outer wall with immured Roman stones;  Abraham a 
Sancta Clara lived here from 1670 to 1676.


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