!!!Voitsberg

Voitsberg, Styria, town in the district of Voitsberg, alt. 395 m, 
pop. 10,351, area 28.54 km%%sup 2/%, in Kainach valley, near 
Koeflach. - District Commission, district court, employment services, 
inland revenue office, office of the Chamber of Labour, district 
office of the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry, branch office of 
the regional health insurance institution, school psychology 
information centre, sports hall, library, commercial academy, 
vocational school, thermal power stations Voitsberg 2 (built in 1956, 
65 MW) and Voitsberg 3 (built in 1982, 330 MW); Arnstein storage power 
station (built in 1925, 30 MW) on River Teigitsch, district heating 
station, Krottendorf electric switching station, 2 distributing 
stations; 4,490 gainfully employed persons (1991), around half of them 
in the service sector; public utility enterprises, pipe and pump 
manufacturing, glass production, tool-making plant. - Oldest 
settlement around St. Margaret church at Tregistbach river (old parish 
church, documented mention in 1103, pulled down in 1890), 
re-established by Duke Leopold VI around 1200, documented as a 
town in 1245; remains of the medieval town fortifications (defensive 
wall, circular tower); town parish church (1690-1708, church of the 
Carmelite monastery, which was closed in 1812, Baroque interior, 
impressive high altar (1711) and paintings (around 1760-1770); former 
monastery (late 17%%sup th/%  century); late Romanesque and Gothic 
church of St. Michael (documented mention in 1268); late Gothic filial 
church of the Precious Blood (1293); column dedicated to the Virgin 
Mary (1753); castle ruin Obervoitsberg (documented mention in 1183); 
Greisenegg palace (documented mention in 1443, converted into a 
country house in 1877); houses of wealthy citizens (core from the 
16%%sup th/%  and 17%%sup th/%  centuries).

!Literature
E. Lasnik, Rund um den Heiligen Berg. Geschichte des Bez. 
Voitsberg, 1982; J. Schreyer, Wirtschaftsraum Voitsberg. Probleme und 
Zukunftsperspektiven einer steirischen Industrie-Region, 1993; 
Voitsberg - eine alte Stadt und ihre Gegenwart, 1994.


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