!!!Grein

Grein, Upper Austria, town in the district of Perg, alt. 239 m, 
pop. 2,910, area 18.42 km%%sup 2/%, historical town situated at a 
bend of the River Danube, at the entrance of the Strudengau valley 
("Greiner Struden"); ship landing stage. - District court, surveying 
office; Stillensteinklamm gorge on the River Giessenbach, 3 km to the 
north of Grein (parts of the gorge in the municipality of Grein, parts 
in St. Nikola an der Donau). Mainly processing and manufacturing 
industries: wood processing (furniture, fences), construction 
industry, printing works; trade in machinery, summer tourism (46,164 
overnight stays). - First mentioned in 1147, town since 1491, in the 
Middle Ages trade in salt, wine and grain; Greinburg Castle (Upper 
Austrian Shipping Museum, Late Gothic building (1488-1493), tower 
entirely preserved, enlarged in 1621; sala terrena, Knight's hall, 
vaulted halls in the south wing; tower with gate, courtyard with 
arcades, chapel (altar from 1625). Late Gothic hall-church, Baroque 
alterations, altarpiece by B. Altomonte (1749); town hall (1562) with 
the oldest intact municipal theatre equipped with stalls 
("Stadttheater", splendid example of Rococo style, 1791). July- 
August, summer festival.

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. I, Oberoesterreich, 1968; L. 
Riegler and M. Lengauer (collection), Grein 1147-1900, 1988.


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