!!!Gloggnitz

Gloggnitz, Lower Austria, town in the district of Neunkirchen, alt. 
457 m, pop. 5,996, area 19.55 km%%sup 2/%, centre of 
industry and trade on the River Schwarza, between the Semmering area 
and the Steinfeld plain. - Local court, branch office of the district 
commission (youth office), district chamber of agriculture, Stuppach 
water power plant; about 54 % of the people employed (1991) work 
in the production sector: manufacture of textile screens, model 
railways, beverages and confectionery, machines, steel, casts and 
electronic equipment, quartzite and sand works, specialised printing 
shop, poultry farm (in Aue); also trade. - The town of Gloggnitz is 
situated on the ancient Semmering mule track, economic upswing in the 
19%%sup th/%  century due to industrialisation, town status since 
1926. Gloggnitz Palace, former Benedictine provostry (1094-1803), with 
16%%sup th/%  century core, completed in 1741, Gothic church in the 
arcade courtyard, converted in Baroque style in 1741, now museum with 
flat stucco ceiling, high altar (1701) with statue of the Virgin Mary 
(14%%sup th/%  century) and wall paintings (1597); Cardinal Piffl 
parish church by C. Holzmeister (1933/34), extended 1960/61. Dr. Karl 
Renner Museum, Mill Teaching Museum.

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 1, Die 
Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1988.


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