The Church of St Francis Xavier testifies to the power of the Jesuit College founded in Leoben in 1613. This early-Baroque building from the 1660s, attributed to the architect Pietro Francesco Carlone, offers a pilastered and corniced façade, flank..

In the Old Town centre, the imposing Hauptplatz houses still testify to the wealth of the former ironmasters. The Plague Column, with its sculpture group of the Trinity and saints, was erected in 1717. There are fine old houses in the Dominikanerga..

West of the town, near the bridge over the Mur, the Gothic church of Maria am Waasen has retained interesting 15C stained-glass windows in the chancel, depicting apostles and saints, the Coronation of the Virgin, and scenes from the Life and Pass..

The buildings of this former Benedictine convent now house the famous Gösser Brewery . Visitors can see the church with its early-14C chancel and 16C nave, noting in particular the first two of the huge pillars, twisted like coils and resting on sta..