Unzmarkt-Frauenburg#

Unzmarkt-Frauenburg, Styria, market town in the district of Judenburg, alt. 745 m, pop. 1,615, area 36.54 km2, in the upper Mur valley, on both sides of the River Mur/Mura (Unzmarkt on the right, Frauenburg on the left bank). - School of rural domestic science, library, power station (municipal), Unzmarkt run-of-river station (private), Weisseck transmitter of the ORF (Austrian broadcasting corporation), amusement park (since 1993); wood industry (felling enterprises, trade, processing), earth works. - At Unzmarkt, Baroque parish church (1737, documented mention in 1311) with Gothic choir, statues by B. Prandtstaetter from Judenburg and his workshop; castle ruins in Frauenburg (documented mention in 1248, favourite residence of the minnesinger Ulrich von Liechtenstein); Romanesque-Gothic parish church (documented mention in 1309, altered before 1447) with nave and high altar converted in Baroque style (around 1735/36) by B. Prandtstaetter's workshop, tombstone with coat of arms (around 1280) of Ulrich III von Liechtenstein (grandson of the minnesinger) with oldest German tombstone inscription.