!!!Stainz

Stainz, Styria, market town in the district of Deutschlandsberg, alt. 
337 m, pop. 2,007, area 9.19 km%%sup 2/%, situated on 
Stainzbach stream, in the south-west of Styria, which is especially 
favourable for wine and fruit-growing. - District court, agricultural 
trade and vocational school, department of the  Joanneum Provincial 
Museum (Agricultural Collection), Motor Car Museum; meat products and 
fruit juice factory, dairy, summer tourism (20,093 overnight stays). - 
Former Augustinian Canons Regular monastery (around 1229-1785): former 
Baroque collegiate church, today parish and deanery church 
(reconstructed 1605-1629) with early Gothic west towers, elaborate 
stucco decoration and Baroque windows; former monastery (later Stainz 
Palace, present form 17%%sup th/% /18%%sup th/%  century, acquired by 
Archduke  Johann in 1840); Calvary Church (1732); narrow-gauge steam 
railway to Preding.

!Literature
H. Wilfinger, 800 Jahre Stainz, 1177-1977, 1979.


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