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STEYR, or STEIER

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 915 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEYR, or STEIER , a See also:town in Upper See also:Austria, 28 m. S.E. of See also:Linz by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 17,592. It is situated at the confluence of the Steyr with the See also:Enns, and on an See also:eminence rises the See also:castle of the princes of Lamberg, dating from the loth See also:century. The See also:parish See also:church is in See also:Gothic See also:style and was built in 1443–1522. Steyr is the See also:chief centre of the See also:steel and See also:iron See also:industry of Upper Austria. The See also:rifle factory, founded in 1830 by Josef Werndl, is the largest in Austria, and since 1882 it has added the manufacture of bicycles and See also: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 See also:capital of a countship, first belonging to See also:Styria, but annexed to Austria in 1192.

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