Eisenerz

Eisenerz

Infobox Ort in Österreich
Art = Stadt
Name = Eisenerz
Wappen =
lat_deg = 47 | lat_min = 33 | lat_sec = 00
lon_deg = 14 | lon_min = 53 | lon_sec = 00
Bundesland = Steiermark
Bezirk = Leoben
Höhe = 736
Fläche = 124.52
Einwohner = 5518
Stand = 2007-05-01
PLZ = 8790
Vorwahl = 03848
Kfz = LN
Gemeindekennziffer = 6 11 01
NUTS = AT223
Straße = Rathausplatz 1
Website = [http://www.eisenerz.co.at www.eisenerz.co.at]
Bürgermeister = Gerhard Freiinger
Partei = SPÖ
Gemeinderatanzahl = 25
Gemeinderat = 17 SPÖ, 3 ÖVP, 2 Die Eisenerzer Grüne & Unabhängige, 2 Fluch Karl-KPÖ, 1 FPÖ
Wahljahr = 2005
image_photo= Erzberg3.jpg
Bildbeschreibung1 = Erzberg

Eisenerz ("Iron ore") is a market place and old mining town in Styria, Austria, 68 mi. N.W. of Graz by rail. Pop. (2001) 6,400. It is situated in the deep Erzbach Valley, dominated on the east by the Pfaffenstein (6140 ft), on the west by the Kaiserschild (6830 ft), and on the south by the Erzberg (5030 ft). It has an interesting example of a medieval fortified church, a Gothic edifice founded by Rudolph of Habsburg in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 16th.

At the turn of the past century the "Erzberg" (Ore Mountain) furnished such rich ore that it was quarried in the open air like stone, in the summer months. There is documentary evidence of the mines having been worked as far back as the 12th century. They afforded employment to two or three thousand hands in summer and about half as many in winter, and yielded some 800,000 tons of iron per annum. During World War II, a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp was located here. It provided slave labour for local industry. [Christine O'Keefe."Concentration Camps."wwwtartanplace.com/tartanhistory/concentrationcamps.html] Eisenerz was connected with the mines by the Erzberg railway, a bold piece of engineering work, fourteen miles long, constructed on the Abt's rack-and-pinion system. It passed through some beautiful scenery, and descends to Vordernberg, an important center of the iron trade situated on the south side of the Erzberg. Eisenerz possesses, in addition, twenty-five furnaces, which produce iron, and particularly steel, of exceptional excellence. Today the Erzberg is home to motocross races.

A few miles to the N.W. of Eisenerz lies the castle of Leopoldstein, and near it the beautiful Leopoldsteiner Lake. This lake, with its dark-green water, situated at an altitude of 2028 ft., and surrounded on all sides by high peaks, is not big, but is very deep, having a depth of 520ft.

Demographic evolution

* 1928 6.945
* 1939 12.395
* 1944 18.419
* 1948 11.103
* 1956 12.679
* 1992 7.965
* 2000 6.750
* 2005 5.839
* 2007 5.566

References

*1911


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