!!!Trofaiach

Trofaiach, Styria, town in the district of Leoben, 
alt. 658 m, pop. 8,519, 
area 5.01 km%%sup 2/%, situated on the Vordernberger Bach 
stream to the northwest of Leoben, on the old iron road. - Lebenshilfe 
day centre for the disabled, sports hall, city library, district 
heating plant, 2 transformer stations; large service sector 
(especially in trade, public and social service); woodworking, metal 
and plastics processing, carrier trade, building trade, some summer 
tourism. - Hammermills documented in the Middle Ages, flourishing iron 
industry up to the 19%%sup th/%  century; chartered in 1979. - 
Gothic parish church with Romanesque core, choir (14%%sup th/% 
 century), nave (1462), mighty fortified tower, Gothic frescoes 
(15%%sup th/%  century), magnificent high altar (documented 
mention in 1722), painting of the Virgin Mary (around 1700); 
subsidiary church of the Holy Trinity (hall church, around 1520), 
Baroque frescoes, high altar (1752) from the Dominican church in 
Leoben. Palaces and castles: Stibichhofen (15%%sup th/%  and 
17%%sup th/%  centuries, now museum) and Mell (altered in 1871/1872); 
Renaissance Oberdorf palace (called Stockschloss) (in the municipality 
Gai) with superb Renaissance windows.

!Literature
A. Reiter, Trofaiach Altes Kulturzentrum im steirischen 
Erzgebiet, 1963; A. Seebacher-Mesaritsch, Trofaiach. Heimatbuch zur 
Stadterhebung, 1979.


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