!!!Wildon

Wildon, Styria, market town in the district of Leibnitz, alt. 
314 m, pop. 2,004, area 7,24 km%%sup 2/% situated at the 
confluence of the Rivers Kainach and Mur at the southern end of the 
Grazer Feld Plain. - School of rural domestic science (Neudorf Castle, 
municipality of Stocking), sewage treatment plant of the Grazer Feld 
sewage association, run-of-river power station in the neighbouring 
municipality of Lebring (constructed 1988, 20 MW), privately run 
generating station and heating station. Plastics industry and plastics 
recycling, building industry. - 2 ruins on Schlossberg Hill alt. 
450 m): so-called "Roemerturm" (Roman Tower; first documented 
mention 1173) and larger upper palace (first documented mention as 
"Novum Castrum" in 1260, destroyed by lightning in 1810). Former 
residence of the Lords of  Wildon. On the western slope, substructure 
of the Hengist ruins; parish church (first documented mention 1252, 
Baroque reconstruction 1671-1676 by F. I. Carlone) with Rococo 
high altar (1766) by F. Koeniger; statue of St. Mary (1682); 
Freihaus (so-called "Lower Castle", 1660); town houses (17%%sup th/%  
century core, façades from the Biedermeier period).

!Literature
D. Kramer and G. Obersteiner, Beitraege zur Geschichte des 
Wildoner Schlossbergs, 1985.


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