!!!Gaaden

Gaaden, Lower Austria, municipality in the district of Moedling, alt. 
323 m, pop. 1,211 (1981: pop. 1,000), area 
24.78 km%%sup 2/%, popular destination for day-trips in the 
south-eastern part of the Vienna Woods, on the western slope of the 
Anninger mountain. - Special school run by the City of Vienna; quarry 
and stone-breaking works, building industry. - The Gothic parish 
church with choir (around 1300), converted in accordance with Baroque 
taste, and the former palace (1793), now the presbytery, together form 
a homogeneous Baroque ensemble; sculpture representing the scene of 
the Agony in the Garden (1710) by G. Giuliani; Ferdinand Raimund 
Museum.

!Literature
Gemeinde Gaaden (ed.), Festschrift zur Wappenverleihung 
der Gemeinde Gaaden, 1983.


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