STEYR, or STEIER  , a town in Upper Austria, 28 m . S.E. of Linz by rail . Pop . (1900), 17,592 . It is situated at the confluence of the Steyr with the Enns, and on an eminence rises the castle of the princes of Lamberg, dating from the loth century . The parish church is in Gothic style and was built in 1443–1522 . Steyr is the chief centre of the steel and iron industry of Upper Austria . The rifle factory, founded in 1830 by Josef Werndl, is the largest in Austria, and since 1882 it has added the manufacture of bicycles and electrical plant . It is the birthplace of the poet Alois Blumauer (1755–1798) . Steyr was founded at the end of the loth century and was the capital of a countship, first belonging to Styria, but annexed to Austria in 1192 .