Town walk

Schladming offers a number of sights and characteristics, which deserve some attention on a city tour.

A Alter Markt - Old market

The Planai ski stadium “Olympiastadion” in the  east of Schladming is starting point of this tour. From this place, the Planai cable car leads up to its hiking and skiing paradise.

The area between the car repair shop Hechl and the Schladming Youth hostel vis-à-vis of the Town Hall, used to be the “Old market”, presumably the first settlement of Schladming.

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B Town Hall

The Town Hall – and municipal office - was built by Prince August of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha as a hunting castle in 1884. It has been owned by the city of Schladming since 1939.

At the entry front of the Town Hall, there is the Schladming Coat of arms with the date 1322. This is the year, in which the document that mentions Schladming’s city rights for the first time was issued.

On the back façade, there is the Coburg family crest.

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C Bürgerschafts-Burgfriedstein (historic boundary stone)

The so-called "Bürgerschafts-Burgfriedstein" from 1588 is in the Town Hall park.

This monument is the only existing boundary stone of the former Schladming township territory.

The letters B.B.Z.S. mean "Bürgerschaftsburgfried zu Schladming".

The mining symbol - pick and hammer, entangled with an "S" - displays the ancient Coat of arm.

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D Peasant revolt monument

On the bottom main square, vis-à-vis of the photo shop Kaserer, there is the Peasant revolt monument, in remembrance of the rebellion in Schladming in 1525.

As location was chosen that very part of the square were the “Grazer Tor” was located at that time. From this gate, the ancient town wall stretched to the north and to the south.

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E Alte Post

On 1^st of May, 1808, the first post-house was opened in the  "Alte Post" guesthouse.

The term "Alte Post" (former post-house) came up after the relocation of the post-house into the building of the ‘Steiermärkischen Sparkasse’ on Main square 13 resp. into the building on Martin-Luther-Straße 154.

The stables for the horses were in the area of the dining rooms.

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F Orestep

The orestep on the front facade of the evangelic parsonage shows that the building was used for mining administrative purposes.

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G Reißinger house

On the Ritter von Gersdorffstraße 68, there is the "Reißinger house", named after its raiser, former market judge Reißinger.

Later on, one of the owners was also Johann Ritter von Gersdorff.

Around the turn of the century, Pauline Flechner-Halm, a well-known flower painter, had her studio in the Reißinger house.

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Town fortifications

The Schladming town fortifications had, besides several gates, 4 round towers, one of which is still partly preserved at the south-east corner of the former fortification.

Wall fragments date back to the year 1629.

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I Lutheran Church

In 1852, the erection of the tower took place; from 1859 - 1862 the construction of the nave by master-builder Karl Ganzenberg.

A relic well worth a visit, dating back to the reformation time in Schladming, is the winged altar (from around 1570) in the side nave of the church.

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J Town museum

The town museum, on Talbachgasse 110, formerly the "Bruderladenhaus".

Built in 1661, it offered accommodation for ill miners as well as for widows and orphans of deceased miners.

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K Town gate

The town gate, "Salzburg gate", right beside the Catholic Church. Fragment of the town wall, which was amended in 1629. There are also other preserved parts of the defence wall: opposite to the elementary school (Schulgasse) and behind the more northern houses on Berggasse.

In 1930, the “Salzburg gate” was extended by a second gate in order to make the increasing traffic more efficient.

The gate right beside the church is the original one.

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L Catholic Church

The Catholic Church was extended by Wolfgang Hagenbacher from 1522 to 1532, whereas the late-roman tower was left as it was.

The high altar (1702 - 1704) was accomplished by master carpenter Peter Hafner (Radstadt) and sculptor Martin Neuberg (Admont).

Above the entrance to the sacristy, hangs a votive image for Matthias von Katzpeck, miner in Schladming, dating back to the second half of the 16^th century.

It is among the most beautiful epitaphies Austria’s dating back to the reformation time.

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M Anna Chapel

In the area of the Catholic Church’s cemetery is the Anna chapel, which is now used as venue for concerts of the ‘Schladming Music Summer’.

In a niche of the wall, you find the wooden plastic "Anna Selbtritt" by local sculptor Roland Reiter.

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M Tomb slabs

On the front façade of the Anna chapel, there are several marble tomb slabs of the Katzpeck family (mining entrepreneur in the 16^th century).

The tomb slabs originally were embedded in the church floor.

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N District court

The district court on Hauptplatz 18, was built by Johann Ritter von Gersdorff, general coin sampler of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, in 1841.

Gersdorff was also the owner of the Zinkwand mine in the Schladming Tauern and an internationally recognised mineralogist.

The house on Hauptplatz 18 is also birth place of the Styrian composer Prof. Ernst Ludwig Uray.

On the front façade of the house, there is a relief picture of the artist.

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O Old Town Hall

Right behind the music pavilion on the main square, there is the very first Town Hall of the former market town Schladming that was constituted in 1849.

Master builder Karl Ganzenberg, erector of the Lutheran Church in Schladming, was one of the owner of this house.

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P Saint Florian

A wooden statue of Saint Florian, created by sculptor Helmuth Simonlehner, can be found on the corner of Steirergasse-Siedergasse. This is the place, where the town well used to be.

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Q Plague Cross

Located near the mini-golf course, just across the Erzherzog-Johann-Straße, where the Katzenburgweg starts. The Plague Cross reminds of the many victims of the plague in 1716.

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