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Stainz is a market town in the district and judicial district of Deutschlandsberg in Styria (Austria).
As part of the Styrian municipal structural reform, it has been merged with the municipalities of Stallhof, Stainztal, Rassach, Marhof and Georgsberg since 2015, and the new municipality continues to use the name Stainz.
Culture and sights
Stainz Castle is a former Augustinian canonical monastery with the collegiate church of St. Catherine, founded around 1229 by Leuthold von Wildon and secularized by Emperor Josef II in 1785.
Stainz is especially known for its Schilcher, which was already grown by the Celts in 400 BC. Every year in August, the Stainzer Schilcher Days are held, a multi-day folk festival centered around Schilcher wine and other local specialties. The market town lies on the Schilcher Wine Road, which leads from Ligist, via Stainz and Deutschlandsberg to Eibiswald.
The Flascherlzug was opened in 1892. Its name comes from the time of the miracle doctor Höllerhansl (1866-1935), who had the reputation of being able to recognize diseases from urine and lived in Marhof near Stainz.
Maria Helfenbrunn
This chapel is located in the Wald district.?? The year of construction is published as 1801, several construction phases are documented. A general renovation took place in 1986. The name is based on a spring whose water was said to have healing properties.
Chapel of the Cross Grafendorf
Location of the Kreuzkapelle Grafendorf: Lot 27 belongs to a different farm than lots .49 (chapel) and 12/30.
The chapel was built in 1911 by the then municipality of Grafendorf, later Stainztal, near a former plague cross.?? Its steel bell dates from 1922
Engelweingarten
The Engelweingarten is a popular vantage point on the Lethkogel in the west of Stainz, which offers a view over the vineyards into the Graz basin and to which a bus route also led in the 1930s.
Steinbauer Chapel in the Gams Mountains
This chapel is located on the border between Bad Gams and Stainz west of the Stainzer Kogel
Stainzer Calvary
This complex is located in Pichling and consists, in addition to a larger chapel, of several small chapels located in the forest along the path, in which themes of the Way of the Cross are treated (so-called Rosary Stations). It was built in 1733, last repaired in 2008, and has been listed since 2021.
