1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
EISENERZ ("Iron ore"), a market-place and old mining town in Styria, Austria, 68 m. N.W. of Graz by rail. Pop. (1900) 6494. It is situated in a deep 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 i3th century and rebuilt in the i6th. The Erzberg or Ore Mountain furnishes such rich ore that it is qua…
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