See also:

• EISENERZ (" Iron ore ")

EISENERZ (" See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

Iron ore ")  , a See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market-See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place and old See also:

• MINING

mining See also:

• TOWN

town in See also:

• STYRIA (German, Steiermark or Steyermark)

Styria, See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria, 68 m . N.W. of See also:

• GRAZ [GRATZ]

Graz by See also:

• RAIL

rail . Pop . (1900) 6494 . It is situated in a deep valley, dominated on the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east by the Pfaffenstein (614o ft.), on the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west by the Kaiserschild (683o ft.), and on the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south by the Erzberg (5030 ft.) . It has an interesting example of a See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval fortified See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, a See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic edifice founded by See also:

• RUDOLPH
• RUDOLPH (d. 1o8o)
• RUDOLPH, or RAOUL

Rudolph of See also:

• HABSBURG, or HAPSBURG

Habsburg in the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century and rebuilt in the 16th . The Erzberg or Ore See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

Mountain furnishes such See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich ore that it is quarried in the open See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air like See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone, in the summer months . There is documentary See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence of the mines having been worked as far back as the 12th century . They afford employment to two or three thousand hands in summer and about See also:

• HALF

half as many in See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter, and yield' some 800,000 tons of See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron per annum . See also:

• EISENERZ (" Iron ore ")

Eisenerz is connected with the mines by the Erzberg railway, a bold piece of See also:

• ENGINEERING

engineering See also:

• WORK

work, 14 M. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, constructed on the See also:

• ABT, FRANZ (1819-1885)

Abt's See also:

• RACK

rack-and-pinion See also:

• SYSTEM

system . It passes through some beautiful scenery, and descends to Vordernberg (pop . 3111), an important centre of the iron See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade situated on the south See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the Erzberg .

Eisenerz possesses, in addition, twenty-five furnaces, which produce iron, and particularly See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel, of exceptional excellence . A few See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles to the N.W. of Eisenerz lies the See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle of Leopoldstein, and near it the beautiful Leopoldsteiner See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake . This lake, with its dark-See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green See also:

• WATER

water, situated at an See also:

• ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of 2028 ft., and surrounded on all sides by high peaks, is not big, but is very deep, having a See also:

• DEPTH

depth of 520ft .