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t Piber is the presbytery. Rebuilt in 1673 designs by Domenico Sciassia.
in the Baroque style, the church The church dates from the
Road map F4. £ Köflach. @
* 500. Tel (03144) 72 777-0. Stud: was subsequently given a Neo- 14th century, but it was rebuilt
Tel (03144) 3323-100. Open Apr–Oct: Renaissance facelift during the in the Baroque style and today
9:30am–5pm daily; Nov–Mar: guided Neo-Classicist period. Inside are it is a triple-nave basilica with
tours only. & 8 Apr–Oct: 10am, statues of the 12 apostles by the medieval frescoes on the walls
11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm daily; local artist Balthasar Brandstätter. and presbytery ceiling, and
Nov–Mar: 11am, 2pm daily. One of the side altars contains a statues of the church’s fathers
small wooden statue of the in the organ enclosure. The
Piber houses the stud farm Madonna and Child, dating from main altar (1632) by Valentin
for the Spanish Riding School 1500. The Magda lenenkirche, Khautt is 16 m (52 ft) high.
horses. When the town of church of St Mary Magdalene, North of the church, by the
Lipizza was incorporated into features lovingly restored cemetery, stands a 12th-century
Slovenia after World War I, it Gothic stained-glass windows. Romanesque chapel. The abbey
was in a former castle in Piber, Judenburg also has a town also has a magnifi cent library
a small Styrian village, that the museum devoted mainly to the and an interesting museum
famous Lipizzaner horses found region’s history and art. with a collec tion of the
a new home. The horses are a old furnishings of
complex mixture of six different Environs: East of the church and
breeds. Born dark-chestnut or town, on the ledge abbey, including
black, they acquire their famous of a rock, stand the Romanesque
white colour between the ages ruins of an old sculptures, a
of four and ten. In Piber the Liechtenstein castle 15th-century votive
initial selection of 5 out of 40 that was once acces- painting, The Mount
stallions takes place: they are sible only by step of Olives, by Hans
assessed for their suitability and ladder. In the von Tübingen,
stage talents before five years environs of and 15th-and
of training at the Spanish Riding Judenburg are 16th-century
School in Vienna. You can visit some of the stained-glass
the stables here, and watch a most interesting Image of the patron saint of panels. The gem
film on the history of the stud. archaeological St Lambrecht Abbey of the museum,
sites dating from however, is its
y Judenburg pre historic times. The famous collection of birds. Some 1,500
species were assembled in the
chariot that is now displayed
Road map E4. * 10,000. @ £ in the Joanneum museum in 19th century by the amateur
Tel (03572) 85000. ∑ judenburg.com Eggenberg castle in Graz was collector Blasius Hanf.
unearthed in nearby Strettweg.
This town at the fork of a road is E St Lambrecht Abbey Museum
an old mercantile centre that took Hauptstrasse 1–2. Tel (03585) 2305-29.
its name from the Juden, or Jews, u St Lambrecht Open for guided tours only mid-May–
who once lived and traded here. Road map E4. * 1,900. @ mid-Oct: 10:45am, 2:30pm Mon–Sat,
When Emperor Maximilian £ Tel (03585) 2305. 2:30pm Sun & hols.
expel led the Jews in 1496, the
town went into decline. Not much St Lambrecht, a Benedictine
remains of the medieval Jewish Abbey, was founded in the i Turracher Höhe
quarters, but it is worth visiting 12th century by Henry III, Duke Road map E5. * 100. @
Nikolauskirche, the church of St of Carinthia. The monastery Tel (04275) 8392.
Nicholas. The only original feature complex was built in 1640 to
This small ski resort nestles at
an altitude of 1,700 m (5,575 ft)
high in the Nockbergen (Nock
Mountains), one of Austria’s
most scenic Alpine ranges on
the border between Styria and
Carinthia. The town makes a
great base for year-round walks
in the woods and mountain
meadows. Nearby are the
remains of an old iron-smelting
plant. The blast furnace ended
its opera tion in the early 20th
century, but the remains of
heavy industry create a very
The world-famous Lipizzaner horses in a paddock near Piber striking feature set against the
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp295–6 and pp318–20

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