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Admont Abbey Library
The world's largest monastic library, a breathtaking Baroque hall with ceiling frescoes, housing 70,000 volumes in the Styrian Alps.
32 km · about 35 min drive
Styria, Austria · Europe
Eisenerz sits on the route: 20 minutes from Vordernberg, 35km from Grüner See (Green Lake).
Eisenerz is a town located in Styria, Austria. With a population of 4,048, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Eisenerz sits in Austria, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Vienna time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Eisenerz to your route.
Eisenerz (German pronunciation: [ˈaɪzn̩ˌʔeːɐ̯ts]; "Iron ore") is a market place and old mining town in the Austrian state of Styria, 68 mi (109 km). northwest of Graz by rail. It is situated in the deep Erzbach Valley, dominated on the east by the Pfaffenstein 1,871 m (6,138 ft), on the west by the Kaiserschild 2,084Read more
m (6,837 ft), and on the south by the Erzberg 1,465 m (4,806 ft). It has a medieval fortified church, a Gothic edifice founded by Rudolph of Habsburg in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 16th century.
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, "KZ-Außenlager Gsollgraben", was located adjacent the Erzberg, in the village Gsollgraben. Its precise location and dimensions could be reconstructed for the first time in 2020, under the supervision of an interdisciplinary team of scholars at TU Graz. The subcamp provided slave labour for local industry.
Eisenerz was connected with the mines by the Erzberg Railway, a bold piece of engineering work, fourteen miles (23 km) long, constructed on the Abt's rack-and-pinion system. It passed through the pastoral scenery, before descending to Vordernberg, a center of the iron trade situated on the south side of the Erzberg. Eisenerz then possessed, in addition, twenty-five furnaces, which produce iron, and particularly steel, of high quality. Today the Erzberg is home to motocross races, called the Erzberg Rodeo.
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Eisenerz is located in Styria, Austria, Europe. The coordinates are 47.5333 latitude, 14.8833 longitude.
Eisenerz has a population of approximately 4,048 people, making it a town in Austria.
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The world's largest monastic library, a breathtaking Baroque hall with ceiling frescoes, housing 70,000 volumes in the Styrian Alps.
32 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
A seasonal phenomenon in Styria where snowmelt floods a park creating a crystal-clear emerald lake with submerged benches and paths.
35 km · about 40 min drive
racetrack
Short, fast circuit at Spielberg in the Styrian mountains hosting the Austrian Grand Prix, with big elevation changes, alpine views, and a busy calendar of public track days.
36 km · about 40 min drive
April to October
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