Straßgang

Straßgang ( Slavic straža = Wait, watch tower ) is the 16th district of Graz. It is located in the southwest of Graz at the foot of Buchkogel and Florianiberg.

History

The place Straßgang is an old, already used in Roman times Thoroughfare. The place that had been cultivated by the Aribonen, was in 1055 by Emperor Henry III. this noble revoked due to participation in a rebellion and transferred to the archbishopric of Salzburg. The name of the area around the southern Hard Road ( Hart, once Hartwigesdorf ) goes back to its founder, Count Palatine Hartwig I. of Bavaria ( † 985, forerunner of Aribonen Pfalzgrafenschloss Office). The village Straßgang in 1938 together with Puntigam the 16th district of Graz. 1988 Puntigam is Grazer district to own one ( 17 ).

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Church of Our Lady in misery to Straßgang Marienkirche late Gothic with Romanesque expanded core from the early 12th century, 1461. In the north chapel altarpiece by Hans Adam Weissenkircher (1686). The church is the cemetery in a dominant position about 50 meters above the town center.
  • Castle St. Martin is detected since 1144 provost of Admont. In 1557 it was rebuilt into a Renaissance chateau. The interior of the castle church standing separately from the years 1738-40 is one of the major works of Josef stammer. In the 19th century the park was a large-scale case of the ponds (as ad Wiarn place since 1185 ), which was designed with numerous ponds, paths and caves around the source of the Bruendl creek, to the castle. Since 1914, the building is used as Volksbildungsheim. Since 1936 it is owned by the State of Styria.
  • Church of St. Florian (1597 )
  • Rupert's church: first documented in 1354, but the building in the core is early Romanesque or even Carolingian ( end of the 9th century), thus it is perhaps the oldest church in the city of Graz.

Economy and infrastructure

  • Smaller industrial and commercial enterprises such as printers Alfred Wall AG and Leykam, Elin (electrical products ), When & Where, Fischer & CO ( air conditioning), MEWA
  • Service companies
  • Some shopping centers
  • Landesnervenklinik Sigmund Freud ( LSF): Regional Psychiatric Hospital, built in 1872 as a " lunatic asylum On Feldhof ".
  • On Kehlberg, which is the southern slope of the book Kogel, are the last Grazer vineyards.
  • Agriculture and Forestry Technical School Old - Grottenhof
  • Kärntner Straße (main arterial road to the southwest ) and the motorway, a section of the A 9, represent a large traffic load for the District dar.
  • Plabutsch tunnel south portal of the Phyrn motorway ( opened in 1987 )
  • Bus lines 31, 32, 62 and 64
  • The Graz- Köflacher railroad, which was originally built for transporting coal from the Köflacher mining area, today a rapid means of transport in the city center of Graz and dar. in Western Styria
  • Natural pool with a water surface of 11,000 m², natural gravel floor, large green areas.
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