!!!Weißkirchen in Steiermark

Weisskirchen in Steiermark, Styria, market town in the district of 
Judenburg, alt. 689 m, pop. 1,305, area 1.24 km%%sup 2/%, on 
the Granitzenbach stream, at the southern end of the Murboden area. - 
Fisching power station (municipality of Maria Buch-Feistritz); textile 
industry, talcum works. - Neo-Gothic parish church (1903-1904), tower 
with Romanesque core, late-Gothic choir, late-Gothic frescoes (1504), 
high altar supported by columns (17%%sup th/%  century) with Gothic 
group of statues (around 1500) and figures by B. Prandtstaetter; old 
houses (with 16%%sup th/%  century central elements).

!Literature
R. Puschnig, Geschichte des Marktes Weisskirchen in 
Steiermark, 1954.


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