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Wallsee-Sindelburg
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Wallsee-Sindelburg, Lower Austria, market town in the district of
Amstetten, alt. 275 m, pop. 2,109, area 25.93 km2,
on the south bank of the River Danube, north-west of Amstetten. -
Wallsee-Mitterkirchen run-of-river power station (built 1968,
210 MW; administration office in Wallsee, the power station
itself is located in the municipality of Mitterkirchen im Machland,
Upper Austria) with river and lock control office, watersports centre;
horticultural business, transport business with gravel works, summer
tourism. - Auxiliary troop camp in Roman times (probably the antique
Adiuvense); market within the rectangular base of the former Roman
camp; castle, developed from a medieval fortress (1364), with tower
(85 m), underwent several alterations and extension in the
19th century, in prominent location above the River Danube,
Roman museum; subsidiary church of St. Anne (mid-18th
century); column dedicated to the Virgin Mary (1710); parish church in
Sindelburg (first documented mention 1138), late-Gothic hall church
(1504) with Baroque alterations and numerous figural sepulchral
monuments decorated with coats of arms (15th /16th
centuries).
This contribution was taken from an Austrian Encyclopaedia
"Österreich Lexikon" © 1995 by
Verlagsgemeinschaft Österreich-Lexikon.
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