!!!Brunn am Gebirge

Brunn am Gebirge, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Moedling, alt. 221 m, pop. 8,573, area 7.26 km%%sup 2/%, situated 
on the fringe of the southern Vienna Woods between Vienna and 
Moedling. - Monastery and congregation of the School Sisters, girls' 
boarding house, golf course, museum of local history and culture with 
a memorial to R. Steiner; army clothing institution; hotel for 
seminars; around 63 % of all employed people work in the service 
sector; expanding trade; numerous production firms: glass industry, 
zinc coating, production of insulating material, lattice, pumps, 
plastic, paper, candles, fine-mechanical devices and gingerbread; 
machine tools, electric machines, concrete works, furniture factory; 
viticulture. - Neolithic settlement (6000 B.C.); Roman grave portrait 
(woman in Noric-Pannonian costume, around 100 AC; only example of a 
painted grave portrait in Austria, exhibited in the museum of local 
history and culture); late Gothic pilgrimage church (15%%sup th/% 
-16%%sup th/%  century) with tracery windows and Baroque altar 
(17%%sup th/%  century), church re-Gothicised.

!Literature
F. Opll, Perchtoldsdorf, Brunn am Gebirge, Maria 
Enzersdorf am Gebirge, 1984.


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