| Mürzzuschlag | |
| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Administration | |
| Country |  Austria |
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| State | Styria |
| District | Mürzzuschlag |
| Mayor | Karl Rudischer (SPÖ) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 12.26 km2 (4.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 670 m (2198 ft) |
| Population | 9,241 (31 December 2005) |
| - Density | 754 /km² (1,952 /sq mi) |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | MZ |
| Postal code | 8680 |
| Area code | 03852 |
| Website | www.muerzzuschlag.at |
Mürzzuschlag is a town in Styria, Austria, with a population of 9,569 (2001). It is the capital of the district of Mürzzuschlag.
Mürzzuschlag is contemporaneously most notable as being where Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek, was born, and is influential to books such as The Piano Teacher and Lust, for example. Mürzzuschlag is situated to the south of Vienna. It is a popular ski-resort town with tourists from all over the world, many of whom also enjoy the summertime there, too.
Mürzzuschlag is home of the world's largest skiing and wintersports museum. Mürzzuschlag has many other interesting museums, one of which exhibits a fine collection of steam locomotives and associated equipment and rolling stock. There is also a museum dedicated to classical musician Johannes Brahms. Mürzzuschlag is well catered for with book shops, restaurants, and a fine technical school. A great deal of effort has been made to ensure that the youth of Mürzzuschlag have a strong incentive to live and work there.
1931 Workers Olympiad
In 1931 the second games of the International Workers Olympiad (organised by the Socialist Workers' Sport International) were held in the town. The games were larger (both in number of participants and spectators) than the 1932 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, USA.[1]
References
- ^ Wheeler, Robert F.. Organized Sport and Organized Labour: The Workers' Sports Movement, in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 13, No. 2, Special Issue: Workers' Culture (Apr., 1978), pp. 191-210
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