!!!Geras

Geras, Lower Austria, town in the district of Horn, alt. 460 m, 
pop. 1,531, area 67.67 km%%sup 2/%, situated in the north eastern 
part of the Waldviertel region, close to the Czech border. - On the 
circuit of the Horn district court, district chamber of agriculture, 
sports ground, vocational school for hotel and restaurant trade, 
nature preserve; tourism. Survey of the town 1928. - Monastery of 
Praemonstratensian Canons (centre of art and cultural education), 
founded 1153 as double monastery Geras-Pernegg, originally Romanesque 
abbey church with Gothic choir, west tower and façade 
(1665-1667), rich Baroque interior (1730), ceiling painting (around 
1770) by F. Zoller; the monastery itself was enlarged and altered in 
the 17%%sup th/%  century, altered in the Baroque style by J. 
Munggenast 1736-1740, painting in the ball room by P. Troger, library. 
Special exhibitions, art courses; old dairy farm building from 1666; 
silo (1670, today hotel); since 1989 priory in Fritzlar (Germany).

!Literature
I. Franz, Geschichte der Waldviertler Klosterstiftung 
Geras-Pernegg, 1947, 1976; Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 1, 
Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1988.


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