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The largest church in Graz and one of the tallest in Austria, the Herz-Jesu-Kirche, or Church of the Sacred Heart, rises above the Styrian capital with a slender spire reaching almost a hundred metres. Built between 1881 and 1887 in a confident neo-Gothic style, it was raised during a wave of church-building in the late nineteenth century, when growing cities expressed their faith and prosperity in soaring revivalist architecture. The brick church follows the model of the great medieval Gothic ...