!!!Falkenstein, Niederösterreich

Falkenstein, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Mistelbach, 
alt. 302 m, pop. 457, area 19.12 km%%sup 2/%, in the northern 
Weinviertel near Poysdorf at the foot of the  Falkenstein Mountains. - 
Transmitter for the Austrian broadcasting corporation on the 
Galgenberg mountain; wine growing, early Baroque parish church with 
Romanesque-Gothic tower, Baroque figures depicting the stations of the 
Cross designed by F. Pfaundler, late Renaissance city hall building, 
medieval castle ruins (built around 1050, fell into disrepair from 
1645); historic wine cellar district. On what is known as the 
"Schanzboden", a walled settlement was built around 4500 B.C. with a 
diameter of ca. 400 m. 100-200 years later the settlement was 
abandoned, and a new wall was built which can still be seen today (165 
x 120 m).

!Literature
H. Wolf, F. Seine Berge, Geschichte, Baudenkmaeler, 1959.


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