Offenhausen#

Offenhausen, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Wels Land, alt. 386 m, pop.1,340, area 15.06 km2, located west of Wels. - Building contractors and associated businesses. - Renaissance parish church (16th century) with Baroque furnishings and decorative scrollwork, high altar painting by B. Altomonte (1754); plague memorial (1649/1650); Wuerting Castle, a moated castle in Renaissance style with round towers, magnificent extensions in 1610, banquet hall with coffered ceiling (1890-1892), circular room in the east tower (around 1610) designed by C. Albertin; palace chapel (alterations from 1890-1895). Prehistoric Museum with pre-historical exhibits (minerals and fossils from Austria and abroad).