!!!Türnitz

Tuernitz, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Lilienfeld, 
alt. 466 m, pop. 2,170, 
area 145,47 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourism (69,123 
overnight stays in 1992), situated at the confluence of the Rivers 
Tuernitz and Traisen. - Advanced-level commercial school, 
2 recreation homes, sports facility; cardboard factory, saw 
mills, production of moulded ledges, construction of agricultural 
machines. - Since the late Middle Ages Tuernitz has been an important 
way station for pilgrims on their way to Mariazell. Late Gothic parish 
church with Baroque defensive tower, late Gothic baptismal font, 
tombstones (17%%sup th/% /18%%sup th/%  century) and Rococo 
interior, altar painting by J. J. Schindler (1808); 
Siebenbrunnen chapel (1729); narrow-gauge railway museum; Eibel skiing 
resort (1,002 m).


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